And as I said earlier, I'm a perfectionist.

Jonathan was a perfectionist.

It turns everyone into Socialist bastards.

Ja. But this is a direct result... of a handful of completely insane fanatics

Now there is a case to be made that control freaks and perfectionists should not get tattoos, and I'm going to return to that point in a few minutes.

I, me, me, mine. It's like a perfect song, that song. A perfect teaching.

So we're all a bunch of suckers, eh?

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

Those wicked neorealists ruined me completely!

And it's about rediscovering idealism in all of that wreckage.

I'm not selling anything but plain oldfashioned Americanism. Some Americanism.

He said, that's what flutes are for to be played well.

I may be an optimist, but I believe diplomats should be optimists rather than pessimists.

I am a vegetarian.

Salman was the consummate perfectionist, and every one of his stores was a jewel of Bauhaus architecture.

He's the perfect victim.

And for those of us who are control freaks and perfectionists and I know where of I speak this is really hard, because we want to do everything ourselves and we want to do it right.

We are not pessimists we are revolutionaries.

I'm a vegetarian.

He's an egoist

Modernism means white box, and it's a perfect white box.

America s Anti Environmentalists

Interesting. I'm, as you can guess, not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist.

I'm an ignostic.

On the scale of my portion of the house, this is equivalent to about as much as I drive in a year, it's about five times as much as if I went entirely vegetarian.

America s Groucho Marxists

Now let me take you I've been a realist I went from theorist early to realist.

Narrator Of all things Americans are, we are makers.

Or might we actually occasionally be something like the selfless altruist depicted in Rembrandt's lovely, lovely sketch here?

And a lot of us and I suspect, especially a lot of us in this room deal with them by just becoming perfect little A students, perfectionists, over achievers.

The locavores, the organivores, the vegetarians, the vegans, the gourmets and those of us who are just plain interested in good food.

500 individualists.

Because we are vegetarians, my son.

An optimist, I'm anything but that.

The classicist, the animist, and formalist and iconoclast.

We in the West, we preach the values, the golden light of democracy, that we are the shining example of how it's done.

Just three days ago we commemorated the victims of the 9 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

He's antimilitarist, like me.

The impertinence of young people today is appalling.

And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.

The dancer's every move was perfect.

There is no perfect mustard or imperfect mustard.

Nothing do I see that is not perfection.

And I am not a complete pacifist like some of my really, really heavy duty, non violent friends, like Mairead McGuire.

So you're a movement chauvinist.