Stephanie Perkins Quotes

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Stephanie Perkins

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• Perfect
• Boring

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• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Risk
  • Impact
  • Debt

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Workout

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

  

  Mary Beard
  • May

• Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Hate

• You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Up
  • Small
  • Period

• I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People

• The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?

  

  J. Budziszewski
  • Enough
  • Judging
  • Morality

• I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Numbers

• On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed.

  

  Milos Raonic
  • Thinking
  • Dinner
  • Amazed

• Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Thinking
  • Perfect
  • Boring