Abraham ibn Ezra Quotes

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • High
  • Perfect
  • Never

• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Better

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Directing

• I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Drive

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• Tom Ford does everything perfect.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Perfect
  • Everything
  • Tom

• I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Perfect
  • Day

• The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Understand
  • Expect

• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Rap

• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Together
  • Society
  • Interesting

• I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Good
  • Perfect

• I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

  

  Columba Bush
  • Children
  • Father
  • Perfect

• I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Time
  • Perfect

• Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Life
  • Perfect

• If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn't work this time, you can try again on the next production.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Wonderful

• So heavy weight, you know what I mean, I try to eat as healthy as possible, so I don’t know about all that.

  

  Art Briles
  • Know
  • Healthy
  • Weight

• I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Real
  • House
  • Food

• How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

  

  Abraham ibn Ezra
  • Perfect
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  • Contradictions