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		Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeanette Winterson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kenny Rogers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a tour bus driver, and everywhere you go there's something describing the world's biggest whatever. I think this will be perfect for Bardstown.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				B. R. Hayden
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chogyam Trungpa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ashton Eaton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian L. Roberts
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Box Brown
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Kay Andrews
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bernard Hill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Melanie Laurent
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into any field. So if you're interested in high energy physics and the structure of the universe, being a programmer is one of the best ways to get in there. It's probably easier than becoming a theoretical physicist
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bjarne Stroustrup
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Don Larsen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Franklin Foer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people, not perfect.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Margot Lee Shetterly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Booboo Stewart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Theroux
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexander Skarsgard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donnie Wahlberg