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• Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

  Douglas Coupland

  Long, Car, Use

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• When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

  Rihanna

  Real, Feel Good, Noise

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Procrastination, Invisibility

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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• The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.

  Judith Martin

  Good Night, Morning, Flower

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• Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Doors, Feminist, Leaving

  Patricia J. Williams (1997). “The Rooster's Egg”

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• I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Writing, Thinking, World

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press

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• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  Margery Allingham

  Brother, Nice, Doe

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!

  Kathy Griffin

  Real, Mistake, Ridiculous

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• I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

  John J. Geddes

  Water, Swim, Depth

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• Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

  Jim Norton

  Sorry, Dark, Rocks

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• Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

  Larry Adler

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

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• My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.

  Simon Pegg

  Jobs, Crazy, Animal

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• Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Poetry, Musical

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• One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

  John Landis

  Challenges, Excuse

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Should Have, President

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• It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Mind, World

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Makeup, Cosmetics, Faces

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• We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Listening To Others, Offering

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• I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fun, Firsts, Making Money

  "Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary on business, fortune and family". Interview with Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2011.

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• I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.

  Tiger Woods

  Hurt, Kids, People

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  Carolyn Wells

  Pride, Fire, Library

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Leader, Massacres

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• A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Tree, Forests

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• It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

  Lester Cole

  Men, Talking, Brain

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• Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Forgiveness, Mean, Persons

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