To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
Wild card teams usually have some flaws or they wouldn’t be one.
No one finds it interesting to look at the person who is perfect all the time. They have no flaws. Flaws are what open us up to another person to show that we are not having a veneer, a fake sort of exterior.
I’m perfectly flawed… I’ve got tons of flaws.
You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don’t have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It’s okay if there are flaws in the process – it makes it more interesting.
As much as progressives hate the Electoral College – and we can argue its flaws all day long – in 2020, the Electoral College is the only game in town. There’s not going to be some miracle where it’s not the rule book. The winner of the Electoral College is president. Doesn’t matter how many popular votes you get.
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
I know my own flaws only too well.
Embrace your vulnerability and celebrate your flaws; it will let you appreciate the world around you and make you more compassionate.
The ’50 Shades’ series is a Cinderella story, where the characters seemingly have no flaws. The ‘Crossfire’ series is very different in that these two characters are almost mirror images of each other.
We’re constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of – and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
It’s definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story’s flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it’s almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you’ve already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.
Obamacare’s terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.
We think you should show your flaws to fans because that’s what makes them love you more.
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.
America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.
Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There’s no better epic. Also, being part Latin and Jewish means I have a sense of the theatrical. There were always a lot of people in my house. My home was always filled with a lot of storytellers.
I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
The big thing I’ve discovered, the big secret, is that it’s all about how happy you are. It’s the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you’re happy.
True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to believe that presidents manage to rise above the limitations that beset the rest of us.
My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that’s really important. I was very much influenced by that.
You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they’re any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they’re not good. They’re flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
I believe that attributing flaws to medical characters makes them not just doctors but something more. It makes them people.
President Obama’s executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.
Let me be clear: Despite his flaws, I respect Andy Reid as a coach and as a person.
All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.
Of course I’m happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It’s like a dream. But I know they are overpraising ‘Your Name’ because I am absolutely not at Miyazaki’s level. Honestly, I really don’t want Miyazaki to see it because he will see all its flaws.
By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.
Whenever I’m feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect.
I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don’t think it’s very healthy. I’m always picking my flaws. It’s a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.
You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country’s election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.
Flaws make us all human, and you’re rooting for characters because of those flaws. It’s ageless if you’re interested in relationships and the way people can or can’t relate to each other.
In ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD, and Owl is a compulsive liar.
I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.
I don’t believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.
As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
We have to support everyone so their stories don’t get ‘invisibilized.’ We don’t necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it’s just about saying ‘We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we’re super-freaking interesting.’
We love to receive praise, but usually we’re not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.
I didn’t want ‘Ramy’ to be a commercial, like ‘Hey, Muslims are good!’ We’re underrepresented, so the instinct when we get an opportunity like this is to show people that we’re good, that we have the same shared values. What’s more important to me is showing that we have the same flaws.
The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people’s flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they’ve said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they’ve endured.
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn’t have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
