Perfect Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Believe, Opposites, Perception

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Way

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  Dan Rather

  Mistake, Editors, Covering

  "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Christian, Mean, Principles

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• Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

  Robert Redford

  Golf, Clubs, Shopping Carts

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• But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

  Lou Reed

  Night, Doubt, Knows

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• In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

  Lou Reed

  Rocks, Insanity, Drug

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• Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

  Lou Reed

  Night, Magic, Energy

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• When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

  Lou Reed

  Trying, Albums, Records

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• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  Tara Reid

  Children, Kids, Mtv

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• I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

  John C. Reilly

  Actors, Employee, Dependable

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• The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Writing, Air

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

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• Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.

  Rihanna

  Sexy, Book, Holiday

  "Rihanna: Living Out Loud". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. March 16, 2011.

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• When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Long

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• I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

  Julia Roberts

  Cute, Dresses, Today

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Behaviour, Indifference, Behavior

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• Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Courage, Would Be

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 216, 1665.

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• Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Would Be, Witness

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• Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, World, Standards

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• Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

  ASAP Rocky

  Mean, People, Role Models

  "ASAP Rocky on gay rights: 'I treat everybody equal'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 26, 2013.

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• It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

  Ann Romney

  Looks, May, Life Is

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• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  Andy Rooney

  Respect, Government, Effort

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