Perfectly Quotes
1695 Perfectly quotes by 1227 unique authors
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You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
— Junot Diaz
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I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
— Matt Dillon
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You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That…
— Tony Dungy
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I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come…
— Roger Ebert
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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift…
— Roger Ebert
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
— Elizabeth Edwards
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't…
— Paloma Faith
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'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem…
— James Fenton
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
— Gustave Flaubert
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In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
— Gary Hamel
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One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my…
— Herbie Hancock
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In…
— Sam Harris
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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean…
— Patricia Heaton
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Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
— Cheryl Hines
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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
— Douglas Horton
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The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly -…
— Arianna Huffington
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
— Victor Hugo
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared…
— Aldous Huxley
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If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that…
— Molly Ivins
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly…
— Calamity Jane
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I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was…
— Rashida Jones
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I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like…
— Alicia Keys
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