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• The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Quilts, Humor

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• Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stars, Lucky, Our Actions

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• For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

  Karl Rove

  Usa, Politics, Civility

  "A Love-Hate Relationship?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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• We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

  Rachel Zoe

  Trying, Moss, Figures

  "Rachel Zoe: Size 0 to 8" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2008.

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• there's plenty of blame to go around.

  Suzanne Collins

  Plenty

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

  Roland Barthes

  Power, Guilt, Discourse

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• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mom, Mother

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• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

  Robert Sternberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Jobs, Luxury

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• I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

  Shane Warne

  Couple, People, Choices

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• Life is to blame for everything.

  Robert Musil

  Life Is

  Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.45, Archipelago

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• I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

  Peter Benchley

  Believe, Inanimate Objects, Don't Believe

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• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  Bill Klem

  Team, Mistake, Umpires

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• Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

  Rex Hunt

  Government, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Firsts, Excuse, Should

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 39, 1799.

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• Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

  Tom Stoppard

  Running, Mean, Noses

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• There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

  Naomi Watts

  Creativity, Humor, Vacuums

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• Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Time, Crazy, Moving

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• We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

  Evan Thomas

  Teacher, People, Guy

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• I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset.

  Ken Schrader

  Moving, Upset, Owners

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• How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Tongue, Faults, Loser

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• Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

  Aeschylus

  Political, Aliens

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, Thinking, Good Woman

  Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7

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• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  Billy Corgan

  Teamwork, Thinking, Feet

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