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• Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Thinking, Intelligence Services

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• I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Humility, Opportunity

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• I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

  Stacie Orrico

  Thinking, Drug, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

  Vince Staples

  Kids, Hip Hop, Drug

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

  Eartha Kitt

  Feelings, Stills

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• Sometimes, in order to follow one's heart, one must do the wrong thing. Now, I'm not absolving anyone of their actions; you have to be responsible for your actions, sick or well, you have to be, you just have to be. All of us are accountable.

  Craig Ferguson

  Heart, Order, Sick

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• That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Men, Mcdonalds

  "Real Time with Bill Maher",

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• Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Leader, Roles

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Human Nature, Wrong Time

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.195, Modern Library

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• To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

  Omar Sharif

  Stupid, Directors, Etcetera

  "Omar Sharif: knave of hearts" by Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

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• The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liars, Lying, Fall

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• Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

  Gary Ackerman

  Moving, Order, Progress

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• Ain't no right way to do the wrong thing.

  Dick Armey

  Way, Right Way

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• There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

  Marion Ross

  Reason, Persons, Smarter

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• We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late.  We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives.  To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

  Margaret Cho

  Powerful, Happy Life, Love Is

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• Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are realms of American life in which government has undermined the operation of market forces and caused artificially high prices. These are two arenas in which the Democrats now propose to do exactly the wrong thing. Their reform reinforces old errors and will infinitely compound the problem of rising prices.

  Mona Charen

  Rising Prices, Two, Issues

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• The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Successful, Careers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

  Paula Broadwell

  Done, Innocent, Righteous

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

  Dar Williams

  Morning, Wake Up, Done

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Smart, People

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Today, Shortcuts

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• It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

  Natalie Dormer

  People, Half, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My mom raised me to be successful and not be a knucklehead and do the wrong things. She still talks to me to this day about those things.

  Deshaun Watson

  Mom, Successful, Knuckleheads

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

  Claudia Black

  Things To Do

  "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I still think people like to hear from someone's heart and how they really feel than the old political rhetoric trying to not say the wrong thing because how would it look, would they get votes, lose votes.

  Joe Arpaio

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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