- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect Quotes
Not everything has to be flawless to feel right.
These quotes look at perfection from several angles - admitting nothing is flawless, appreciating a product that finally fits, and even arguing the universe is perfect exactly as it is. It's a mix of humility and quiet confidence. For a lighter companion set, try Like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect is boring.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave up that thesis, and wrote one on her instead. When I learned that Georgiana's great-nephews supported opposite sides in the American Civil War, I knew this would be the perfect sequel.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could take back all the mistakes that I made throughout my career, I would have had a perfect career. I would have missed no shots. I would have made no turnovers. I would have went right instead of going left when I was supposed to, every game.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reddit offers the opportunity for us as humans to connect on a much deeper, broader level because users have an alter ego and aren't tied to a social network of friends with whom they want to share how perfect their lives are.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lighting is everything in order to get the 'perfect' selfie.
- Democratic Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020