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Mistake Quotes
"It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there."
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"Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C."
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"Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit."
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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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"The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few."
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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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"Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election."
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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
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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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"I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently."
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"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
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"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
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"You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass."
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"We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things."
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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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"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
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"Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media."
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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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"Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice."
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"I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again."
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"When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering."
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"Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough."
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it."
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"Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake."
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"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
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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."
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"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
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"Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement."
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"A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure."
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"Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important."
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"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."
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"I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress."
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"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation."
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