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How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
- Colin O'Donoghue
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I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
- Ali MacGraw
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If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.
- Mikaela Shiffrin
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
- Kapil Sharma
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I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.
- Platon
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
- Maiara Walsh
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
- Sam Claflin
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
- W. Bruce Cameron
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I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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Everyone should get sacked at least once. It forces you to look at yourself... It is important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life. Perfection doesn't exist.
- Anna Wintour
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
- Ralph Adams Cram
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Rajinikanth is a man of perfection and he knows what to give his audiences.
- P. Vasu
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In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.
- Peter Mullan
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I expect perfection from myself.
- Bryce Harper
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I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.
- Andrea McLean
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I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
- Philippe Petit
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
- Pir Vilayat Khan
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I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.
- Jim Lampley
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I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!
- Marilyn Minter
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
- John Millington Synge
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
- George William Russell
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Style is the perfection of a point of view.
- Richard Eberhart
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The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.
- Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
- Ronnie O'Sullivan
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I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.
- Joshua Roman
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A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.
- May-Britt Moser
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
- Camille Pissarro
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For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
- Steven Price
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We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
- Donella Meadows
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
- Natalia Makarova
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The truth is that much of the plastic surgery we see today has a racial or ethnic component because it has to do with inherently racial concepts of physical perfection, like the 'Roman nose.'
- Jess Row
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
- Karan Mahajan
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
- Edmund Husserl
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Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.
- Nia Peeples
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The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.
- Kay Kay Menon
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Imperfection is perfection.
- Flume
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Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.
- Alysia Reiner
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'Random Rules' kicks off 'American Water,' and from its opening line - 'In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection' - you know you're in for something strange and special.
- George Pelecanos
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
- Nadia Comaneci
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Part of being an athlete is constantly striving for more. We're looking for perfection in a world where that doesn't exist. No matter what we do and what we accomplish or how we perform, we're always looking at areas we can improve upon.
- Tessa Virtue
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We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.
- Tessa Virtue
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
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We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.
- Emmanuelle Chriqui
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
- Billy Childish
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
- Gary Weiss
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If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.
- Jason Derulo
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I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.
- Jonny Wilkinson
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I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
- Indya Moore
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I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
- Taylour Paige
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When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.
- Vinessa Shaw
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Imperfection is the new perfection.
- Hina Khan
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You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.
- Ron Howard
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I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.
- Ron Howard
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
- J. Courtney Sullivan
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Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.
- Kelsang Gyatso
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Perfection doesn't exist.
- Emma Willis
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The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.
- Maurice Greene
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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
- Claire Messud
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
- Saint Ignatius
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Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.
- Isabella Bird
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Being a ballerina, you don't ever want to show yourself less than perfect, ever. That's what your goal is: 24/7 perfection.
- Wendy Whelan
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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
- Harry Knowles
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I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
- Kevin A. Ford
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
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I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It's the same discipline you employ in dance - you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.
- Ron Ben-Israel
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The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
- Mark Helprin
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At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.
- Rebecca Serle
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
- Harry Browne
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That's what I expect from the players - perfection.
- Lane Kiffin
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Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.
- Joe Thomas
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Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.
- Emily Atack
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
- Eden Hazard
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Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.
- Julianne Moore
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
- Matthew Arnold
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Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
- Jenny Zhang
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Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection.
- Pamela Druckerman
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The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
- Jean Giraudoux
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You'll never really reach perfection, but the strive for it, I love it.
- Lotte Verbeek
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The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.
- A. J. Pritchard
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I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.
- Doug Harvey
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I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.
- Ne-Yo
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
- Benjamin Haydon
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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
- Morris West
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Perfection itself is imperfection.
- Vladimir Horowitz
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There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
- Georges St-Pierre
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For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.
- Jane Jensen
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
- Ada Lovelace
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
- Richard Brautigan
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
- Richard Whately
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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I'm very comfortable working with my brother. There are no ego hassles. Also, we all strive for perfection; so there is no compromise on creativity. I found my niche while working with Rakesh.
- Rajesh Roshan
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For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
- Jane Green
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To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
- Jose Bergamin
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
- William Ames
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Some women are able to wake up looking effortlessly chic - as though a bevy of fashion fairies twisted their low-lit locks into a messy chignon while they slept. They choose a frock from their exceptionally curated closet and leave a trail of custom fragrance and perfection in their wake.
- Meghan Markle
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But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
- Carolina Herrera
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I'm constantly looking for perfection.
- Yves Saint Laurent
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In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
- Alexander Wang
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