#mistake

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. ↗

— Claude Pepper

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I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff. ↗

— Luke Perry

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ↗

— Rick Pitino

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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ↗

— Jacques Plante

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A great many people mistake opinions for thought. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

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The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

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Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

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