Perfect Quotes - Page 5

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Almost Perfect, Incredibles, Stillness

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• But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

  Lactantius

  Mind, Excellence, Eternal

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

  James Lafferty

  Mean, Practice, Want Something

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

  Lee Iacocca

  Regret, Business, Crazy

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• The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

  Kathy Ireland

  Philosophy, Design, Way

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• Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

  Johnny Isakson

  Real, Winning, People

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• "Love" is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like "move". The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as "love" and as "guv" - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

  James Fenton

  Moving, Love Is, Alternatives

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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  Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sports, Shining

  "How Jennie Finch Stays in Pro-Athlete Form". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com. March 14, 2012.

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• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  Ernst Fischer

  Greatness, Men, Machines

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• I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

  Bobby Flay

  Flavor, Soup, Honey

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• We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

  Jane Fonda

  Long, Long Time, Meant To Be

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• I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

  Jane Fonda

  Childhood, Trying, Midlife

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• The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Facts, Assuming

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

  Emmet Fox

  Life, Change, Art

  Emmet Fox (1938). “The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII”

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• And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

  Jamie Foxx

  Men, Degrees, Avocados

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE KINGDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Imperfection

  "DVF Up Close". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

  Lady Gaga

  Real, Video, Magazines

  "Lady Gaga tells students she was bulimic as a high schooler". Lady Gaga's remarks during a young women's conference "It’s Our Turn" at the Brentwood School in Los Angeles, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2012.

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• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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