Stephanie Perkins Quotes
I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
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When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
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I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.
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Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
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At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.
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Desire creates its own object.
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I wanted them to beat Laurel Highlands' score, and we did. I want them thinking Albert Gallatin is coming for them.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.
