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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistake Quotes
On getting it wrong, and what came after.
This mistake quotes page ranges from a lighthearted dietary misstep to more serious reflections on management errors and misplaced priorities. See our Regret quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that there are two threats to our freedom: there's a threat that comes from the federal government, from the Obama Administration policies... but there's also a huge and significant threat from al-Qaeda.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
You make a mistake, you keep going.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
- Nov 07, 2020
Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
- Nov 07, 2020
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020