Made A Mistake Quotes - Page 5

• I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.

  Danny Boyle

  Running, Mistake, People

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Regimes

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• It was just a bad game. On the first goal, I just made a mistake and got scored on and it just snowballed from there. It happens sometimes. You don't want it, but it's the reality. I just have to refocus.

  Tomas Vokoun

  Mistake, Reality, Games

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• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Mistake, Faithful

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

  George H. W. Bush

  Sex, Mistake, Triumph

  "Super Duper Political Bloopers" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. October 6, 2000.

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• In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

  Sam Donaldson

  Mistake, Years, President

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• If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

  Brit Hume

  Sorry, Mistake, People

  "Can Carly Fiorina ride a 'defeat Clinton' strategy to the GOP nomination? Plus, Gen. Michael Hayden makes case for NSA terror tools". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Mistake, Winning

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• The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mistake, Blood, People

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• Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Children, Mistake

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.2.

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• I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

  Gary Condit

  Mistake, Men, Years

  Interview with Connie Chung, www.deseretnews.com. August 24, 2001.

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• I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.

  Bruce Pearl

  Mistake, Missing, Hook

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• An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mistake, Tired, Intelligent

  "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 116-117), 1962.

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• These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Teenager, Stupid

  Barack Obama's remarks after visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2015.

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• I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

  Vitor Belfort

  Regret, Mistake, Character

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• When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?

  Thomas Bray

  Mistake, Government, Might

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• I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.

  Chris Brown

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  "Chris Brown's Billboard Cover Tease: 'I Hope That I Am Not Defined By Just A Few Moments In My Life'" by Joe Lynch, www.billboard.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

  Adrienne Bailon

  Mistake, Men, Forgiving

  "Rob Kardashian hits out at ex-girlfriend Adrienne Bailon on Twitter by sharing sister Khloe's post" by Jess Wilson, www.mirror.co.uk. July 31, 2014.

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• I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

  Jerry Andrus

  Mistake, Mind, Different

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• We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

  Murray Walker

  Mistake, Filters, Made

  "The Final Pit Stop" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2000.

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• I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, People, Revelations

  "New CBS Video Contradicts Clinton Again" by The Associated Press, www.cbsnews.com. March 25, 2008.

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• If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.

  John Peterman

  Mistake, Eye, Made

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• By accident Jeb Bush announced that he was running for president. And then he said, 'No, not yet. OK, I made a mistake.' And then later in the day, by accident, he called Hillary and congratulated her.

  David Letterman

  Running, Mistake, President

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• In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Life, Success, Girl

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• Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

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