“It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.”

— Candace Bushnell, book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

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David Eddings book Belgarath the Sorcerer

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“I've got a perfect body
But sometimes I forget
I've got a perfect body, because my eyelashes catch my sweat
Yes they do, they do.”

Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist

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Hal Clement book Mission of Gravity

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“Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“I do think that we’ve been taking it too much. I think we’ve been tolerating the intolerable.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician

Source: Alex Morris Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-interview-797214/ (27 February 2019)