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Mistake Quotes
"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."
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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
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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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"We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records."
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"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."
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"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
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"Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake."
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"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."
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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 like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio."
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"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
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"I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake."
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"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
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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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"Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!"
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"He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake."
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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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"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."
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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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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
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"Find fault with thyself rather than with others."
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
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"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
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"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."
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"I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions."
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