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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

  Lee Iacocca

  Regret, Business, Crazy

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• The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

  Kathy Ireland

  Philosophy, Design, Way

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• To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

  John Irving

  Family, Nice, Food

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

  Johnny Isakson

  Real, Winning, People

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• Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

  Charles Ives

  Vagueness, Indication

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.35, 1st World Publishing

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• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Odds, Doing Me

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  LaToya Jackson

  Book, Healing, Writing

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• I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Real, Mean

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  It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  P. D. James

  Life, Memories, Fall

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.339, Faber & Faber

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Play, Roles

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

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• I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Party, College, Glasses

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

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• The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Mistake, Mean, Frustration

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• When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

  Grace Jones

  Reality, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Views, Stylist, Language

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• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Summer, June

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Believe, Player

  "For the Love of the Game: My Story". Book by Michael Jordan, www.slate.com. 1998.

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• If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

  Tony Judt

  Answers, Improvement, Should

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.109, Penguin

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• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  Victoria Justice

  Want, Want Me

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• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

  Franz Kafka

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Writing, Character

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• I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Hurt, Believe, Might

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• The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

  Kim Kardashian

  Stay Strong, Home, Dating

  "Kim talks about her sex tape". Interview with Scott Tenorman, metro.co.uk. January 30, 2008.

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• Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Travel, Journey

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1963). “Japan, China”

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