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"I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'"
"You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses."
"Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price."
"Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes."
"Only the mistakes were mine."
"To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction."
"I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."
"Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose."
"Life would be dull without them."
"Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart."
"After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes."
"So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him."
"Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November."
"My mistake was in ever opening the books."
"When we have money, we start making mistakes."
"I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more."
"I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw."
"It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt."
"I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something."
"It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt."
