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Mistake Quotes
"I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them."
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"Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake."
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"We all make mistakes but one has to move on."
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"I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake."
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"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."
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"Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude."
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"People mistake their limitations for high standards."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."
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"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
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"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
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"Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China."
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"I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes."
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"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."
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"We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved."
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"The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq."
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"It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master."
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"It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour."
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"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."
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"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."
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"I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky."
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"But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets."
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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."
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"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
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"When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played."
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"Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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