"In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned."
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"Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed."
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"Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving."
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"Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it."
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"It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect."
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"It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best."
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"There is perfect love in heaven!"
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"THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem."
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"Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul."
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"Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting."
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"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."
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"A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense."
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"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen."
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"Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come."
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"For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it."
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"I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them."
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"I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other."
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"Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington"
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"There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business."
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"If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it."
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