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Quotes About Mistake

To do a 75-minute movie about SpongeBob wanting to make some jellyfish jelly would be a mistake, I think.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.
~ Ron Moody
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
~ Walter Cronkite
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
~ Pat Robertson
Marrying early was a very big mistake. Everyone warned me but I felt I was in love and ignored their advice. I had to pay the price for my silly mistake when I had to compromise on my career.
~ Shefali Zariwala
People are afraid of trying something new, of failing even before they start. My point is, what is the worst that can happen? You will fail and friends who warned you will say 'I told you so!' So you made a mistake - and will hopefully make many more. But hey! The real tragedy is not the mistake you make, but not learning from it.
~ Suhasini Mulay
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
~ Yusuf Hamied
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.
~ Paul Singer
Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
~ Ben Affleck
I actually fell down the steps on 'Ninja Warrior.'
~ Chris Kamara
I'm having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!
~ John Boyega
Secrecy is the underlying mistake that makes every innovation go wrong in Michael Crichton novels and films! If AI happens in the open, then errors and flaws may be discovered in time... perhaps by other, wary AIs!
~ David Brin
They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
~ Eddie Izzard
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
~ Becki Newton
I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.
~ Josh Widdicombe
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
What's done cannot be undone.
~ Rachel Hartman
Rubbing salt in my wound won't change what I did.
~ Rachel Hauck
The weather,I finally thought.The weather was always a good topic of conversation. "That was some blizzard we had last week,wasn't it?" I asked, since he'd been at Cynthia's instead of with us.We could talk about the blackouts,the shrieking winds- He perked up, looked around. "There's a Dairy Queen in town?I didn't know that.Where is it?" I heard Allie snicker. Sam took up for his friend. "It's an understandable mistake.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I blew it." "How'd you do that?" she asked. I gave her a quick rundown of all my most memorable moments, including the mascara fiasco. "Like he noticed," Bird said when I was finished. "Oh, he noticed. I've never had a guy look at me that hard before. He was probably trying to figure out if it was a birthmark, a tattoo, or if I was preparing for Halloween a few months early.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Without another word, she hurried up the stairs. I hoped Jason had locked the bathroom door. Knowing Tiffany, she was hoping for an "accidental" locker room preview. Oops, sorry! Thought this was my bathroom. I'm always confusing the left side of the hallway with the right. Silly me.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Look, Kate, we were just making conversation. It's a fifteen-hour drive and we made it without stopping. I was just trying to make sure that Sam didn't fall asleep." "By asking him questions about me?" "Don't read more into it than there is. We'd covered every other topic. You were the last thing we had in common." He realized his mistake too late. His poker face caved, his cheeks turned red.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
A slip of the tongue is not the fault of the mind a kick on the arse will bring back the mind
~ Rajan
A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
~ Randy Pausch