Accused Quotes

• When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

  Amy Adams

  Hair, Personality, Blonde

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• If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

  I. F. Stone

  Memories, Long, Virtue

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• Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

  Milan Kundera

  Betrayal, Forever, Bed

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• That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Kids, Two

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• Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Men, Prison, Walks

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• It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Struggle, Reality, Swag

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• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

  Alberto Salazar

  Cocky, Careers, Training

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• It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

  Michael Bay

  People, Relax, Needs

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• Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

  Gwen Ifill

  Rude, Tough, Good Things

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• Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

  Marya Mannes

  Way, Honest

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Men, Choices

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 04, 2012

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• In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

  Jacques Verges

  Country, Men, Democratic

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• I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

  Clifford Geertz

  Writing, Research, Literature

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• But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

  John Deacon

  Lifestyle, Changed, Bits

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• Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

  Angelina Grimke

  Men, Peculiar, Inferiority

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• The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

  Matt Dillon

  Say Anything, Way, Starting

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• You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

  Greg Rusedski

  Sports, Cheating, Athlete

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• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  Ben Chandler

  Being Happy, Hands, Political

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• There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, People, Way

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• One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

  Don Shula

  Motivational, Sports, Work

  Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan

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• If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

  Al Sharpton

  Passion, Wife, Black

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• If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Gossip, Say Anything, Shame

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• I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

  Cary Grant

  Being Myself, Difficult, Critics

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

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• Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Guilt, Mouths, Coercion

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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