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  • Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right. -- Hailee Steinfeld
  • If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. -- Ricky Williams
  • It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part. -- Ron Eldard
  • Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right. -- Mary Schmich
  • I'm a dealer. That's exactly right. I'm a used car dealer. -- Bernie Ecclestone
  • Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them. -- Ken Blanchard
  • You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time. -- Dillon Burroughs
  • I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right. -- Meg Tilly
  • And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight. -- Bret Harte
  • It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. -- Jennifer Egan
  • Listen, Bernie Sanders talks about how Washington is corrupt, both parties are in bed with the lobbyists and special interests. I think he's exactly right. -- Ted Cruz
  • It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers. -- Terry Pratchett
  • We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. -- Jodi Picoult
  • I couldn't get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain. -- Stephenie Meyer
  • Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right. -- Libba Bray
  • I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really what`s been happening. -- Jonathan Michel Metzl
  • When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right. -- Henry Cavill
  • If someone wants to eat healthy, they can do that and get the sandwich exactly right. I'm so pleased we're able to influence so many people and their eating habits. -- Fred DeLuca
  • Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right. -- Jonathan Tropper
  • You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing. -- Gregory Crewdson
  • We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation. -- John C. Bogle
  • I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent. -- Gregory Crewdson
  • Simon leveled the gun at Will again. 'Now,' he said casually, 'someone's gonna die here in the next minute.'On the other side of the two-way mirror, Sammy took aim.'That's exactly right,' she whispered. -- Jenna Brooks
  • There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right. -- Andy Gibb
  • If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs. -- Sarah Dessen
  • I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs. -- George Saunders
  • It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good. -- Stephen Malkmus
  • A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences. -- Alan Light
  • These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with these big productions with expensive actors, you just don't have the time to get every shot exactly right. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
  • Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle. -- Dani Shapiro
  • The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life -- Christian Slater
  • The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star. -- Clark Gable
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  • Our kiss was electric and soft,and tentative and certain,terrifying and exactly right.I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.We were warm and shivering,and young and ancient,and alive.I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.We already do. -- E. Lockhart
  • Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. -- Laurie Anderson
  • The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. -- William Gibson
  • Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. -- Mitch McConnell
  • Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger. -- Robin Marantz Henig
  • The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. -- Samuel Butler
  • I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under. -- Anne Lamott
  • I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -- James A. Baldwin
  • People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked. -- Anna Deavere Smith
  • Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing. -- Clare Balding
  • Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. -- Peter Latham
  • I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. -- Siobhan Davies
  • When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened. -- Robert Webb
  • I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. -- Steve Jobs
  • Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong. -- John Tukey
  • The right time to die is never exactly now. -- Mason Cooley
  • Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place. -- Joan Lindsay
  • The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time. -- Don Roff
  • Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. -- Laurie Anderson
  • I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now. -- Louise Hay
  • A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right. -- Norma Fox Mazer
  • If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly. -- John Tukey
  • I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate. -- Dolly Parton
  • I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh. -- Jennifer Harrison
  • I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Divine Spirit has a way of doing exactly what is right for everyone concerned at the moment. -- Harold Klemp
  • President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering America. -- Paul Ryan
  • Gracie, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and everything is going to be all right.Willem -- Lisa C. Temple
  • She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished. -- Jean Ferris
  • A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. -- Robin Sloan
  • I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right. -- Suzanne Collins
  • One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.' -- Dan Rather
  • I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage. -- Glennon Melton
  • There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way. -- Hilary Swank
  • I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment. -- Lisa Mangum
  • Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours. -- Steven Van Zandt
  • You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly. -- Christopher Moore
  • Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful. -- Simon Van Booy
  • I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. -- Pema Chodron
  • Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are you right now? -- Rachel Vincent
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  • I would tell my 25-year-old self to relax, just trust yourself, it's going to be okay. You're exactly where you're supposed to be right here and right now. -- Andrea Hall
  • There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game. -- Jon Gruden
  • I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable. -- Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them. -- Scott Thompson
  • You have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect...and so are you! -- Wayne Dyer
  • my country fellow,you deserve much more.learn to ask what you exactly need at the right time at the right cause.do not accept less or more .balance it. -- litymunshi.
  • Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back! -- John Godfrey Saxe
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