Flawed Quotes - Page 14

• I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

  Michael Moore

  Individual, Jesuit, Raised

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Beautiful, Strong, Hero

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 22, 2011

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Character, Successful

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Growing Up, Character, Keys

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

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• You've never met a more flawed guy than me.

  Glenn Beck

  Guy, Mets

  "Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star". www.nytimes.com. March 29, 2009.

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• In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

  Stella Young

  Sweet, Strong, Way In Life

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• The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.

  Paul Ormerod

  Views, Belief, Profit

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Glad

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

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• I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

  Dennis Prager

  Ocean, Years, Worry

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• We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Healthy, Ordinary

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• I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Fun, Mistake, Fall

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• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  Vince Cable

  Home, Growth, Income

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• As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

  James Badge Dale

  Book, Character, Perfect

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• I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Interesting, Males

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• Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

  Gene Robinson

  Our World, Understanding God, Body

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• The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

  Mark Skousen

  Government, Numbers, Growth

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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• Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

  Brit Marling

  Complicated, Messy, Humans

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• Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Law, Promise

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• I wish I didn't have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.

  Beau Bridges

  Thinking, Wish, Flaws

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• Every team is flawed. There hasn't been a truly complete team in a while.

  Jim Calhoun

  Team, Flaws

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