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Mistake Quotes
"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."
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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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"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."
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"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."
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"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake."
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"A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat."
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"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
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"Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes."
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"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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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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"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
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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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"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
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"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether."
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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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"I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong."
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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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"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."
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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?"
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"The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded."
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"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?"
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"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."
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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem."
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