"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."

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"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."

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"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong."

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"All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train."

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"We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made."

David Gill, Scottish Scientist

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"The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few."

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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news."

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"Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?"

Tom Berenger, American Actor

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"I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative."

Andre Norton, American Writer

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