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• I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Baby, Brother, Children

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• The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Motherhood, Thinking, Careers

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• If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

  Rick Warren

  People, Use, Done

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• I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

  Emma Watson

  Teeth, Body, Want

  "How Beauty and the Beast star Emma Watson will shed her Harry Potter past" by Hannah Hope, www.mirror.co.uk. March 3, 2017.

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• I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

  Emma Watson

  Fashion, Fun, Regret

  "Emma Watson Reveals Her Only Fashion Regret" By Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2011.

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• My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Grandmother, Play

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• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

  Andrew Weil

  Years, Would Be, Body

  "Why Plants Are (Usually) Better Than Drugs" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Parables, Life Is Short

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• Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

  Johnny Weir

  Winning, Robots, Lucky

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• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  Orson Welles

  Mediocre, Refuge

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.

  Tom Welling

  Vacation, Ideas, Appointments

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• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

  Paul Wellstone

  Political, Utopia, Should

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• Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Mind

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• I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.

  Joss Whedon

  Hair, Age, Digital

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• Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

  Ellen G. White

  Order, Heaven, Action

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• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

  Walt Whitman

  May, Faults, Blame

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  Olivia Wilde

  Yoga, Thinking, Hiking

  "Face Time - Olivia Wilde". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  Olivia Wilde

  Block, Emotional, Feet

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• Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!

  Carnie Wilson

  Pregnancy, Decision, Bypass

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• Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Gentleman, Majority, Mammals

  "Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 84, 1977.

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• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Holy Grail, Literature

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

  Steve Wozniak

  Skills, Trying, Unseen

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