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• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

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• The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

  Jon Landau

  Sgt Pepper, Sound, Doe

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• Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

  Jessica Lange

  Intelligent, Emotional, Language

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• Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

  Christopher Lasch

  Justice, Coercion, Owners

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• If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

  Queen Latifah

  Kids, Shoes, Want

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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  Queen Latifah

  People, Black, Important

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

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• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Philosophy, Blessed, Mean

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• The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Judging, Soul, Mind

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8312, Delphi Classics

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• I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Law, Film

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• A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

  Doris Lessing

  Thank You, Prayer, Grateful

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• I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

  Monique Lhuillier

  Life, Kids, Home

  "The designer making Rihanna, Scarlett and Gwyneth look good". Interview with Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2012.

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• The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Apes, Ability

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 115, 1799.

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• I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

  Maya Lin

  Math, Logic, Architecture

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• My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

  Matthew Morrison

  Running, Vancouver, World

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• All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

  Toni Morrison

  Nature, Memories, Reality

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Play, Way

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• The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

  Aimee Mullins

  Mother, Legs, Awful

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• There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Insightful, Despair

  Haruki Murakami (1987). “風の歌を聴け”

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Perfect Guy, Saws

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• If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Zero, Two, People

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Rules And Regulations, Would Be

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, His Love, Able

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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