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• You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

  Ellen Page

  Hero, Thinking, Evil

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• Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

  Pink

  Looks, Guessing, Mistaken

  Song: Fuckin' Perfect

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• I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

  Christine Maggiore

  Issues, Understanding, Guessing

  "A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death" by Charles Ornstein and Daniel Costello, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

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• There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

  George W. Bush

  Differences, Criticism, Guessing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• A miracle worker who can do more with less, pacify rival groups, endure chronic second guessing, tolerate low levels of support, process large volumes of paper, and work double shifts. He or she will have carte blanche to innovate, but cannot spend much money, replace any personnel, or upset any constituency.

  Michael Fullan

  Support, Miracle, Upset

  Michael Fullan (2009). “The Challenge of Change: Start School Improvement Now!”, p.77, Corwin Press

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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• Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the young people. They don't have the debilitating self-loathing and the second guessing.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Self, People

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• Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

  Phillip Lopate

  Humility, Writing, Forever

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• This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

  Sarah Dessen

  Regret, Light, Doors

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.197, Penguin

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• I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

  Luke Temple

  Cities, Guessing, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Transcript of the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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• I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

  Stephen Harper

  Guessing

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• As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.

  Jeff Ross

  Fall, World, Guessing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You get frustrated when you don't win and when you're not successful. You have to keep battling. You don't give up. You don't start second guessing yourself.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

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• Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

  Don Mattingly

  People, Guessing, Managers

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• I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

  Mark Duplass

  Moving, Guessing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it’s really a false start is when you start … it’s hard to put into words.

  Elif Batuman

  Writing, Thinking, Quality

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• If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

  Bob Kane

  Writing, Guessing, Want

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• There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

  Rob Portman

  President, Campaigns, Sniping

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• As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Artist, Focus, Guessing

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• One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

  Sarah Lacy

  Nice, Guessing, Intensity

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Criminals, Legal System, Guessing

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• The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

  Criss Jami

  People, Mad, Guessing

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.30, Criss Jami

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• If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hair, Self, Decision

  "ESPN: Mea Culpa". www.salon.com. November 18, 2002.

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• You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram.

  Dana Gould

  Real, Thinking, Drawing

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