Flawed Quotes - Page 3

• I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Witty, Intelligent, Kind

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

  Carl Hart

  Drug, Assumption, Should

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

  Emily Haines

  Art, Perfect, Sometimes

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

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• I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

  Annalee Newitz

  Humanity, Trying, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Prosecutors are allowed to cherry-pick what evidence, if any, that they do present to a grand jury. So the grand jury process overall is flawed. And that's why it should not be utilized in this case and so many cases that are similar to this.

  Sharon Cooper

  Cherries, Process, Should

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

  Kevin Costner

  Memorial Day, Real, Fall

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

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• Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

  Janet Evanovich

  Character, Roots, Needs

  Interview with Brian Sherwin, briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.ru. October 31, 2010.

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• The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those flaws, rather than hiding them in some code that allows "this" and doesn't allow "that" as if there were a way of being sure of how to be good in the world.

  Andre Alexis

  Responsibility, Important, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Where are we going to reject that easy but flawed process of letting the intelligence services do whatever they want? It's inevitable that it will happen. I think it's going to be where Internet businesses go.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Intelligence Services, Want

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

  Tod Goldberg

  Hero, Thinking, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

  Mark Lanegan

  Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

  Sara Ramirez

  Role Models, Body, Roles

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• Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.

  Dan Thompson

  Beautiful, Discovery, Ideas

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• Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

  Michael Broadbent

  Wine, People, Perfect

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• The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Trying, World, May

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• Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.

  William Wilberforce

  Belief, Argument, Christianity

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• You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Beautiful, Way

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• We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Believe, Glasses

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• Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

  Amy Lee

  Perfect, Nobody's Perfect

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• Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

  Trevanian

  Thinking, Democracy, Way

  Trevanian (2011). “Shibumi”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

  Christos Gage

  Art, Character, Fans

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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• To have weakness is not to be flawed--it's to be complete.

  Deepak Chopra

  Weakness

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• The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

  Danai Gurira

  Character, Best Character

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