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Wrong Quotes


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."


"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."


"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"


"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."


"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."


"A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer."


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


"Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win."


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


"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."


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



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