I didn't want to write a book that advocated for a less curious world. Prurient curiosity may not be great. But curiosity is. People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.
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Related Flaws. We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not ... HORACIO JONES I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that ... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT There are a lot of people who are opposed to anything and some of them live in the Down Under area. ... CHARLES MILLARD Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for ... WILL ARNETT When curiosity drives you, discoveries will line your path SOTONYE ANGA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of fla... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from u... KEN AULETTA You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. MORLEY SAFER It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses... MEG RYAN We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid... SARAH VOWELL In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA To understand people, is an impossible thing for a man or women to accomplish, but to understand a p... AUSTIN J SCIME Be inspired by the goodness in people and not their flaws. RUDOLF JEROME RAGAY We all have our flaws, but we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are. ERIN HUNTER We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are. ERIN HUNTER When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter. JEANETTE CORON Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good ... ANNE BRONTë It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the... YVONNE PIERRE When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves. CLAIRE CHILTON Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws. KEVIN GATES We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with ... FORREST CURRAN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT To make robots practical, flaws must be removed. To make robots endearing, flaws must be added... KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev... ELLEN DEGENERES They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what – those flaws almost made them greater. JACK THORNE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than y... BEAU TAPLIN Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your ligh... D. ANTOINETTE FOY Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really s... SUSAN C. YOUNG In the long run - everyone is different, but we are all human. Everyone deserves love no matter what... MEGAN WILSON Amazing how people are so quick to judge others. What is even more amazing, are those that judge and... KIMBERLY BANDY Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR When you don't know anything about it and read a section of this book, you think, 'wow, I didn't kno... BOB HILDERBRAND Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary o... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner's flaws... STEVE MARABOLI Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL Be curious, question everything and find out how things work and why SOTONYE ANGA Dare to be different. Find the courage to accept that you may always fit in, and the peace within to... EILEEN ANGLIN Smart people know their strengths, but happy people are the ones who have accepted their flaws OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN "When we look for flaws in others and point them out, we are doing them injustices." ~Tom Bake... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If i... HENRY MILLER As perfect and as great as our system is, there are still flaws. And this is why it's important that... DARRYL ROUSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's agel... LYNN SHELTON I know my flaws before other people point them out to me. TAYLOR SWIFT Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI That we weren't expecting. It was great to find that people have a curiosity about it and want to kn... DAN KOHL You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on... RACHAEL LEIGH COOK There are so many flaws, ... I don't think they can be fixed. JAMES CARROLL With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. Ther... EMRAAN HASHMI Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Do you wish to be accepted for who you are? Do you wish to be loved without condition? Do you wish f... AARON LEE YEAGER My follow-through wasn't the same. When you have a bad wrist like that you try to make adjustments s... ANTHONY FARMER I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human char... HANK GREEN When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable. JUDITH MARTIN “when u look into d mirror may be u see flaws in you but when someone looks at you sees only beaut... HARSHIT AGNIHOTRY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ... JEAN LUSH A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit th... JEAN LUSH Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people rema... ERALDO BANOVAC The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don... SCOTT ADAMS Humility is the art of appreciating the people in your life, who forgive you your flaws. MELISSA SZYMANSKI I believe that what has happened in West Tisbury is going to have echoes for years to come around th... KERRY SCOTT If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are... AHMED ALI ANJUM We learned we're not untouchable. But there are flaws on this team. DAVE GLASGOW The empire waist hides a multitude of flaws, isn't that great news! AVRIL GRAHAM I like to think that people value the journey as well as, or even more than, the destination. This g... STUART RECKASE "In my darkness, I have seen the horrible flaws of a simple man. In my light, I have felt the simple... PATRICK K. MCGUIRE All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppr... MARSTON BATES When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws. EYDEN I. People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked... BLAKE LIVELY I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder n... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them DELESHA SHANTAE BUFORD Half the time when you're writing songs, the things you're saying, you don't realize you're saying a... CALEB FOLLOWILL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The person who is never wrong is the person you should avoid. Real people have flaws. NICKY VERD People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS We had the right game plan, but our execution had flaws in it at times. (Seneca) is such a good defe... NATE SPRIGGS But the basic flaws are all still there, DANIEL COHEN It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old... AMY GRANT Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring H... GERMANY KENT If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to wri... TONI MORRISON
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JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.... JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e... JON MEACHAM Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn... JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ... JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their... JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els... JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance. JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa... JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ... JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d... JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje... JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood... JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ... JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ... JON FOREMAN I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr... JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ... JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. JON LOVITZ The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ... JON ORINGER Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ