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"I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before."
"Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it."
"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake."
"Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining."
"Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all."
"I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life."
"Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes."
"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."
"Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement."
"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."
"That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them."
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God."
"It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes."
"I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make."
"Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me."
"And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever."
"When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie."
"The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon."
"Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true."
