Flawed Quotes - Page 17

• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Dark, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Fun, Mistake, Fall

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• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  Vince Cable

  Home, Growth, Income

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• As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

  James Badge Dale

  Book, Character, Perfect

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• I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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• The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

  Mark Skousen

  Government, Numbers, Growth

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• Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

  Gene Robinson

  Our World, Understanding God, Body

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• There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Interesting, Males

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• I'm not classically trained, but I am flawed in a very fantastic way!

  Cee Lo Green

  Way, Fantastic

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• Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Character, People, Personality

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• I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Running, Real

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• Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.

  Mike Huckabee

  Years, People, Abortion

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• I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  Callie Khouri

  Writing, Authority, Feels

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• Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

  Susan Rice

  Self, Practice, Legislation

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• My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Criminals, Bob, Opponents

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• I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Thinking

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• If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

  Tom Watson

  Design, Needs, Flaws

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• When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

  Dave Matthews

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

  William P. Young

  Book, Kids, Fiction

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Running, Book

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• The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

  John C. Bogle

  Retirement, Investing, Financial

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• To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.

  Daniel Quinn

  Buddhism, Islam, Different

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• The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

  Mark Epstein

  Book, Mean, Self

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