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Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy! -- Billy Squier
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I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. -- Lord Mountbatten
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. -- Craig Brown
And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative. -- Mike Curb
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way. -- Tom Peters
I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan. -- Miguel
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves. -- Christine Baranski
I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche. -- James Wolpert
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George. -- Anna Kendrick
I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy. -- John F. Kerry
My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time. -- Evan Williams
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner. -- Laura Dern
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -- Oliver Goldsmith
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it. -- William Gibson
I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional. -- Martin Lawrence
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word. -- John Sexton
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. -- John Cusack
Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect. -- Rod Carew
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. -- Betty Buckley
It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that. -- Brandi Carlile
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. -- Honore de Balzac
The English are a nation of consummate cant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate -- Horace Mann
Joy in one's work is the consummate tool. -- Phillips Brooks
The English are the people of consummate cant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger -- Patrick J. Adams
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. -- Charles Sumner
I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. -- Walter Russell
Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent. -- Jack Kirby
Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional. -- David Brooks
Sex is the way to consummate love, no the way to make someone to love you -- Linda Alfiori
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. -- J. Hoberman
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. -- Mark Twain
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves -- Christine Baranski
To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. -- Edward Gibbon
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? -- Horace
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. -- Bliss Perry
The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship. -- Nathaniel Branden
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. -- Sun Tzu
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? -- William John Locke
I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies. -- Randall Terry
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas. -- George Gilder
Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon. -- Giorgio Armani
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right. -- Francis William Newman
Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser. -- David Cross
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows. -- Arthur Lismer
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape . -- Robert Charles Wilson
My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine. -- Martin Luther

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