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Wrong Quotes


"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."


"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."


"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."


"I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong."


"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."


"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"


"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."


"When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane."


"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."


"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."


"I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good."


"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side."


"We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way."


"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."


"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."


"There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way."


"I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged."


"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."


"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."


"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."


"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong."


"If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong."


"I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone."


"It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong."


"After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system."


"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."


"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."


"It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century."


"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."


"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."


"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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