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• You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.

  Ike Barinholtz

  Monday, Apology, Trying

  "Q&A: The Funniest Man on The Mindy Project". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened over time. They say they miss the old Drake, girl don't tempt me

  Drake

  Girl, Missing, Mind

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• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.

  Jonathan Knight

  Gay, Magazines, Lgbt

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• Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

  Mat Kearney

  Strong, Tears, Way

  Song: Closer to Love, Album: City of Black and White, 2009

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• I scored a touchdown on the first reception I made in the NFL and spiked the ball. The instant I did, I felt horrible and couldn't wait for the game to end so I could call Coach Bryant and apologize. He said he didn't even notice, but I never spiked the ball again.

  Ozzie Newsome

  Games, Nfl, Waiting

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• Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

  Toby Keith

  Patriotic, Support, Troops

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• It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Feelings, Lioness

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• It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely - not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again?

  Mel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Drunk

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

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• I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Sorry, Pain

  "Fox 411: 'Hanoi Jane': An Urban Myth Re-Examined". www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2001.

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• I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Japan, Disrespect, Tragedy

  "Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Tsunami Tweets" by Dahvi Shira, people.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.

  Robert Lowell

  Depression, Bipolar, Want

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• The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life ... have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.

  Robert Thurman

  God, Mother, Buddhist

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• It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.

  Jill Davis

  Life, Real, Mean

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• Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Fire, Agency, Political

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• To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Trying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have nothing definite to apologize for; I'm just sorry about everything in general.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sorry, Apology, Definite

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• On a trip to Israel, Sarah Palin asked the Israelis why they're apologizing all the time. They responded saying, 'Because we told everyone Tina Fey was coming.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Israel, Fey, Palin

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• I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Believe, Sweat, Excellence

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• True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

  Pink

  Knowing Who You Are, True Beauty, Want

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• If someone burgles your house, and you knock them out, are you gonna apologize for knocking them out? No you're not, you're gonna stomp on their head, just like any other normal person would.

  David Haye

  Motivation, House, Normal

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• A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

  Olivia Wilde

  Beautiful, Sexy, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think the only thing in life that you really have to worry about is how you treat other people. If you mess up and treat someone else badly, you apologize, and you don't apologize for anything else. Be yourself and go for it.

  Anne Hathaway

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Things In Life

  "Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Carlos Saldanha Interview RIO". Press conference, collider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

  Peter King

  Reality, Europe, Nsa

  "Peter King: Obama should ‘stop apologizing’ for NSA". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Apology, Sides, Desperate

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