Perfect Quotes - Page 13

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  Karl Rove

  Europe, United States, Different

  Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.

  Kelly Rowland

  Girl, Noses, Ugly

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• America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

  Marco Rubio

  War, Equality Under The Law, Years

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• No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

  Marco Rubio

  Eye, Past, People

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• There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Insecurity, Levels, Security

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Teacher, Order

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• Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Tools, Literature

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories”, p.161

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• When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

  Winona Ryder

  Confused, Feelings, Normal

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• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Government, Storm

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Wealth Creation, Economy, Very Good

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• Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Law, Inspire

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• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  Carl Sagan

  Ambition, Science, Environmental

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.230, Ballantine Books

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• The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Photographer, Andrea

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• Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Cities, Venice

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• I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

  Adam Sandler

  Boyfriend, Father, Tears

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• We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Cutting, Discipline, Shapes

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• Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

  Dan Savage

  Christmas, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Strong, Negative, Literature

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

  Marilyn vos Savant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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• In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

  Antonin Scalia

  Children, Big Families, Pancakes

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• I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

  Curt Schilling

  Morning, Jobs, Games

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• Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

  Neal Schon

  Here And There, Slides, Steps

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• You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivation, Long, Waiting

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

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• We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

  Jill Scott

  Jealous, Trying, Different

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• I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

  William Shatner

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