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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Pythagorean Theorem, Shooting

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• Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

  Apolo Ohno

  Hard Work, Style, Cards

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• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  Yoko Ono

  Mother, School, Years

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Wall, Smart

  "Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

  Susan Orlean

  Giving, Greek, Hashtags

  "Rehash" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Quests, Apps

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Rocks, Rock Music, Music Is

  "Ozzy Osbourne: 'I had nothing to lose'" by Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

  Joel Osteen

  House, Waiting, World

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity (part 2)". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

  Clive Owen

  Kids, Parenting, Negotiation

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• I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

  Michael Palin

  Art, Travel, I Love Food

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• No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

  Saint Patrick

  Ignorance, Pleasure, Should

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Self Discipline

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• There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

  Katy Perry

  Dream, Makeup, Cry

  "Katy Perry Celebrates Her Independence". Interview with Brooke Hauser, parade.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

  Katy Perry

  Fabulous, Documentaries

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• The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Doe, Use

  "Perry to GOP Convention: Not Riding Into Sunset" by Morgan Smith, www.texastribune.org. June 7, 2012.

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• Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Literature, Faults, Ifs

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• Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

  Steven Pinker

  Sports, Photography, Fall

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• The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.

  Brad Pitt

  Editing, Expression, Lines

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• Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Evil, Causes

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from May 02, 2012

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• Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Imagination, Draws, My Own

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

  J. B. Priestley

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

  Dennis Quaid

  Jobs, Three, Hey

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• Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

  Ben Quayle

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Issues

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