Flawed Quotes - Page 16

• 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 brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

  William Greider

  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not looking for is the audience going to like it [the film during the first screening] or not. I want to hear somebody try to poke a hole in it. I want to hear why they saw the logic was flawed or why that scene was not believable.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Trying, Saws, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

  Sandra Brown

  Sex, Character, Men

  "Sandra Brown, author of 'Deadline'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I think people are screw-ups, and even our greatest heroes are deeply flawed human beings. People make bad decisions for all the wrong reasons, and then somehow they'll do the right thing, and then somehow they'll save somebody, or they'll be compassionate. Horrible people can do wonderful things, and wonderful people can do horrible things.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll go where he wants. They need to get a better relationship between the rider and the elephant. In part, you get it just from watching yourself stumble around in life, make mistakes, then read a little psychology and stop blaming yourself. Realize that I am flawed. I am complicated. I am divided, and I'm doing the best I can.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mistake, People, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Father, Redemption

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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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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• No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

  Jean Kwok

  People, Giving, Doe

  Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

  Kyle Cassie

  Character, Fighting, Play

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• In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Confused, Mirrors, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

  Nate Parker

  Men, Perfect, Get Better

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

  Paul Simon

  Challenges, Poverty, Moral

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• People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dream, Play, People

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

  Alison Brie

  Character, Thinking, Persons

  "Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie & Leslye Headland Talk ‘Sleeping With Other People,’ Sex, Indie Films And More". Interview with Ken Guidry, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Israel, Facts

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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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 any public policy that doesn't account for the fact that most CO2 emissions don't come from the United States, but they come from other countries, is a flawed policy. So let's not unilaterally tax our power, our people, to solve a global problem.

  Todd Young

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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