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• All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

  Meryl Streep

  Annoyed, Attention, Annoying

  "Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Worry, Suffering

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• I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.

  Alison Sweeney

  Beautiful, Children, Fun

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• I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Is, Thinking, Perfection

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• I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

  Taylor Swift

  Design, Waiting, Dresses

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  Tacitus

  Fear, Doe, Causes

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• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Happiness, Smile, Beauty

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.452, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Order, Events, Needs

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

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• My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

  Daniel Tammet

  Mother, Action, Awareness

  "Daniel Tammet: 'Maths is as rich, inspiring and human as literature'". Interview with Adam Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

  Serj Tankian

  Lines, Irony, Life Is

  "The Imperfect Harmony of Serj Tankian". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

  Tim Tebow

  Christian, Get Better, Trying

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". Interview with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2011.

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• I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

  Tim Tebow

  Fall, Grace, Know How

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• I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

  Sean Patrick Thomas

  Art, Would Be, Routine

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

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• The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Effort, World, Clear

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.253, Pan Macmillan

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• I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

  Scott Thompson

  Beautiful, Nice, Orange

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• People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

  Travis Tritt

  Redneck, People, Looks

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• A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

  Anthony Trollope

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “Miss Mackenzie: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Book, Literature

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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Insanity

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

  Diego Della Valle

  Happy Life, Too Much, Way

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• As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

  Gore Vidal

  Birthday, Progress, Age

  The Observer, February 7, 1982.

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• Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Freedom, Writing, Policemen

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.187, Dial Press

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• I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Mistake, Hands

  "Dwyane Wade Talks New Book, ‘A Father First,’ And What He Plans To Teach His Sons About Women" By Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, World, Firm

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