Flawed Quotes - Page 13

• Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

  David Corn

  Used, Misled, Mislead

  "George W. Bush’s CIA Briefer: Bush and Cheney Falsely Presented WMD Intelligence to Public" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 19, 2015.

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• We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

  Lauren Myracle

  Mistake, Moving, Believe

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.171, Penguin

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• I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

  Jay Roach

  Thinking, Democracy, Patriot

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

  Judith Miller

  Flaws, Source, Should

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• I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

  Jami Attenberg

  Bases, Humans, Persons

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

  Guy Finley

  Character, Greatness, Two

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• It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

  Bruce Schneier

  Cards, Matter, Flaws

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• The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, Loneliness, Intimate Relationships

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• Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Broken, Vases, Violence

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.4

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• Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Struggle, Reality, Worry

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Drama, Character, People

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• The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin

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• If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Islamic, Thinking

  President's News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2006.

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• It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

  James Carafano

  Evil, Politics, Scandal

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• Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Self, Feelings

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

  Ben Whishaw

  Stories, Human Nature, Filmmaker

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Pride, People

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• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  Nathan Fillion

  Real, Hero, Past

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• Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.

  Liev Schreiber

  Struggle, Character, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  Jennifer Garner

  Princess, Hard Work, Knights

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• I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.

  Dominic Cooper

  Fun, Crazy, Believe

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• Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

  Tara Brach

  Self, Years, Roots

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• This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

  Frederick Seitz

  Country, Opportunity, Technology

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Business, Doe, Restoration

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