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• You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.

  Richard Yates

  Sweet, Jobs, Nice

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• Talk about your failures without apologizing.

  Brené Brown

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• What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Practice, Civilization, Solitude

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

  Gene Stallings

  Success, Apology, Flaunting

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• The self-righteous never apologize.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Self, Righteous, Self Righteous

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• I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Done, Jazz, Used

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• This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Freedom, Tired

  "ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm". "Good Morning America", www.newsbusters.org. August 31, 2007.

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• You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. 

  Bill Hybels

  Jobs, Passion, Leader

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• Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

  John Arbuthnot

  Happy Life, Secret

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• Sell. Don't apologize for it and don't be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you've earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn't pay the rent.

  Thom Gimbel

  Attitude, Pride, Want

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• I would like to apologize to Brock Lesnar, his family, the UFC and the UFC fans for my stupid remarks. I respect Brock, all the other fighters, and the sport of mixed martial arts. I’m sorry that I stepped out of line.

  Frank Mir

  Sports, Art, Sorry

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• I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.

  Lee Clow

  Smart, Brave, Marketing

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• If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.

  Mildred Cable

  Men, People, Awkward

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• I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.’ Good grief, I should be a mental patient. (Cassandra) You have more strength than any warrior I have known. Don’t ever apologize to me again for those few times when you show your fear to me, Cassandra. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Song, Sorry, Fun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.297, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

  Brenda Fricker

  Pain, Hockey, Abuse

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• Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

  Paulo Coelho

  Doe, Permission, Asks

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• To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Real, Progress

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• There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Moved On, I Realized

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• Never apologize for your cooking.

  Julia Child

  Cooking

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• No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

  Julia Child

  Kitchen, Matter, Happens

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• I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Thinking, Trying

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• Usually I'm too tired to apologize.

  Lewis Black

  Tired

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• And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Believe, Thinking

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• It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

  Robin Hobb

  Too Late, Late, Forgiven

  "The Golden Fool". Book by Robin Hobb, 2002.

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• God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

  Douglas Adams

  God, Finals, Messages

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