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• I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Struggle, Tv Shows

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Doctors, Patient

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• The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Mean, Secret

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• Socialism is always wrong.

  George Ayittey

  Socialism

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• People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

  Jane Jacobs

  People, Trying, Lines

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Hero

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, People, Against War

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump By EDITOR • JAN 22, 2017". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Loudres Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

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• I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.

  Paul Brown

  Player, Wife, Complaining

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• Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

  Truman Capote

  Children, Way, Folks

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• Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Peta, Humans

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heaven, Doe, Crowds

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• You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

  Billy Joel

  Evil, Understanding, May

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• People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.

  Elaine Stritch

  People, Doing What You Want, Unwise

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• The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

  William Faulkner

  Poetry, Facts, Not Interested

  "The Town" by William Faulkner, (Ch. 5), 1957.

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• Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

  Earl Nightingale

  Opposites, Majority, Doe

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• Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Crowds

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• If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, People, Awkward

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• Trump loves hate. Trump is afraid. Trump is always wrong.

  Jean Dujardin

  Hate, Love Hate, Trump

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• Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Wrecks, May

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 06, 2011

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

  Cyril Connolly

  Swim, Wicked, Atheism

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• I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, June 3, 1922.

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• Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Firsts, First Time

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!

  Bill Maher

  Husband, Names, People

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