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"Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art."
"The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare."
"Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady."
"We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else."
"I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time."
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect."
"Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful."
"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat."
"Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
"Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken."
"I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character."
"Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."
"It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."
"Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life."
"Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely."
"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another."
"He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants."
"Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich."
"Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit."
