"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?"
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"I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it."
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
"It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own."
"For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind."
"There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom."
"'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'."
"Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!"
"The Cadillac Escalade is the perfect vehicle for a pimp with a growing family."
"Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones."
"Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else."
"I'm trying to make the perfect dance, that's what drives me."
"Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness."
"I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity."
"Done is better than perfect."
"If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?"
"Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss."
"A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers."