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• I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Sorry, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Giving, Church

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• Make no apologies for who you are.

  Marshall Sylver

  Who You Are

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Charity, Philanthropy, Tragic

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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• Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Kings, Integrity, Men

  "Gonzales: 'I feel angry'". Interview with John King, johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Believe, America, Special

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• For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Hundred, Persons

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

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• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Wise, Niece

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mistake, Looks, Stitches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Mistake, Responsibility, Feet

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

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• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  John G. Rowland

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Responsibility

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• So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Hands, Essence

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• I make no apologies for being reasonable.

  Barack Obama

  Reasonable

  Remarks by the President in a Town Hall Meeting in Decorah, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 15, 2011.

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• It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humble, Example, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Media, People, Chinese

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, People, Laid Back

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• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  Christine Pelosi

  Color, Talking, Class

  "Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  Andrea Thompson

  Art, Black And White, Years

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• Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

  Alan Clark

  Work, Giving, Wrecks

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• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Writing, Thinking, Age

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