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• With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".

  Varg Vikernes

  Risk, Quoting, Being Accused

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

  Edith Wharton

  Wicked, Persons

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4119, Delphi Classics

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• You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Party, Moon, Office

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• Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

  Greg Iles

  World, Definitions, Want

  Greg Iles (2003). “The Footprints of God”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

  Jack Ma

  Mean, Should Have, Skills

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• It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Nice, Want, Needed

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.

  Tony Robbins

  Helping Others, People, Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• ... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

  Susan Glaspell

  Light, May, Persons

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Caught, Persons

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Robel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

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• But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Opening Up, Hands

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Movie, Girl, Book

  "A Woman We Love: Jennifer Aniston" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?' Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself." ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland." "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

  Cassandra Clare

  Interesting, Worry, Rejection

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mistake, Ambition, Pride

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• The toughest are people mistakes, when you put the wrong person in a job. Sometimes you're too slow to move them out. Or not getting the right people involved to solve a problem, or doing something out of anger; you learn, just don't do that. But I'd have to say the Whale was one of them, and I would also have to put Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual on the list at this point.

  Jamie Dimon

  Jobs, Mistake, Moving

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

  Meghan Daum

  Jobs, New York, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.

  Dawoud Bey

  People, Black, Looks

  Dawoud Bey, Walker Art Center (1995). “Dawoud Bey: portraits 1975-1995”

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• There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.

  Loretta Devine

  Needs, Actors, Etiquette

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• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  Ogden Nash

  News, Eras, Persons

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

  Hugh Howey

  Fall, Men, People

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• If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.

  Muso Soseki

  Teaching, Persons, Ifs

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• It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

  Ben Jonson

  Noble, Done, Spite

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.157

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• Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

  Les Parrott

  Betrayal, Backstabbers, Wrong Time

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

  Josh Lanyon

  Moving, People, Tables

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

  David Levithan

  Two, Awkward, Stories

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.21, Egmont UK

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• I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.

  Joe Rogan

  Advice, The End Of The Day, Scientist

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