Flawed Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.

  George Will

  Writing, People, Political

  "Religion and the American Republic". www.nationalaffairs.com. Summer 2013.

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• The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of childhood into a zone of disciplinary exclusion and cruelty, especially for those young people further marginalized by race and class who now inhabit a social landscape in which they are increasingly disparaged as flawed consumers or pathologized others.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Class, Space

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Social, Consumerism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

  Rashida Jones

  Mean, Jail, Justice

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• I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.

  Sam Rockwell

  America, People, Prison

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• I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

  Richard Gere

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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