"In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff."

-- Ethan Hawke

#Self Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Neurosis Quotes

“I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.40, Dial Press
“To walk down the aisle and see all my friends and family and to see my handsome man standin' there, and to know that at 61 you can still find love and have a magical day like that â€¦ it was really beautiful,”

Source : "Inside Tina Knowles Lawson's 'Magical' Wedding Day: 'It Couldn't Have Been More Perfect'" by Jeff Nelson, people.com. April 22, 2015.
“Language is a social art.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Douglas B. Quine (2008). “Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays”, p.289, Harvard University Press
“We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students,”
“The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else. Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldnâ€™ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.”
“At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire”
“Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.”
“When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.”

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