"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."

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"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."

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"It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes."

Maureen Forrester, Canadian Musician

Blame, Mistakes

"The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies."

Greg Ginn, American Musician

Blame, Will

"I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame."

Howard Coble, American Politician

Blame, Exercise, Fault, May

"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Blame, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Blame, Killing

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

Saskya Pandita, Tibetan Leader

Blame, Man, Praise

"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."

Chaka Fattah, American Politician

Blame, Majority, Now, Republicans

"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."

James Longstreet, American Soldier

Blame, Cause, Desire, Help

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

Satchel Paige, American Athlete

Blame, Man, Praise

"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Blame, Humor, Accuracy, Wit

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