Not Perfect Quotes - Page 3

• I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, Men, Perfect

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• Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

  Dick Clark

  Fighting, Years, Long

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• It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

  Peter O'Toole

  Perfect, Return, Marmalade

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• I'm not perfect-looking and I don't say the right things, I'm a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older.

  Christina Ricci

  Real, People, Perfect

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

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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, Perfect

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• People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

  Patricia Hewitt

  People, Perfect, Challenges

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

  William E. Rees

  Perfect, Long, Risk

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• We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Perfect, Democracy

  Interview with Mark Weisbrot, venezuelanalysis.com. May 2002.

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• So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

  Mary J. Blige

  Pain, Mistake, Order

  "Mary J. Blige Says She's 'Just Fine' With Her New Album, Losing 'Umbrella' To Rihanna". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. October 10, 2007.

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• It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

  Angie Stone

  Mistake, Role Models, Perfect

  Interview with Ra’ed Poetical, www.mtv.co.uk. August 7, 2012.

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• I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

  James Franco

  Artist, Self, Long

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• It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Perfect, Someone You Love

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• I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

  Harry Crews

  Suicide, Running, Weed

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• But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Perfect, Simplicity, Way

  Fernando Pessoa (1971). “Selected poems by Fernando Pessoa: including poems by his heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [and] Alvaro de Campos, as well as some of his English sonnets and selections from his letters”

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• Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Fashion, Men, Evil

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• Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, People, Perfect

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

  Avital Ronell

  Real, Clear, Reactionaries

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• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Fall, Perfect

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• Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Mean, Perfect

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.12, Image

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• Instead of my telling people what they should be doing, it makes more sense to be an inspiration to them. I'm not perfect by any means. I've done some stupid things, and I'm very aware of that. In this day and age, you have to have a sense of humor about it, and at the same time, it's made me a lot more aware that you have to take responsibility for your actions. For me, it's about staying on the path. If I slip, that's OK; just get back up and keep focused.

  Fergie

  Stupid, Inspiration, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

  Anthony Trollope

  Husband, Men, Perfect

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “Miss Mackenzie: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

  Tim Tebow

  Fall, Perfect, Grace

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• I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

  Tim Tebow

  Christian, Perfect, Get Better

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". Interview with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2011.

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• My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

  Daniel Tammet

  Mother, Perfect, Action

  "Daniel Tammet: 'Maths is as rich, inspiring and human as literature'". Interview with Adam Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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