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• Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

  Tyler Kent

  Night, Burning, Made

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• President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Apology, Should Have

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• I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

  Mason Cooley

  Regret, Blame, I Apologize

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• You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Government, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Honesty, Self

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• [T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Mistake, Government, United States

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• I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

  J. L. Austin

  Thinking, Forget, Tendencies

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• To all the kids who looked up to me, I’m truly sorry for letting you down, but I hope it’s helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare. There is no excuse for domestic violence, and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.

  Ray Rice

  Dream, Sorry, Mistake

  "At crossroads in quest to continue NFL career, Ray Rice asks forgiveness" by Aaron Wilson, www.baltimoresun.com. February 13, 2015.

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• The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption.

  Eric Dezenhall

  Christian, Apology, Suffering

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• If you're married to an entrenched non-apologizer, it won't help to doggedly demand one. Some folks lack the self-esteem required to take responsibility for their less than honorable behaviors, feel remorse, and offer a heartfelt apology. And many people are so hard on themselves for the mistakes they make, they don't have the emotional room to admit vulnerability and apologize to a partner.

  Harriet Lerner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know. This is Jesus. Not that He apologizes for the hard and the hurt, but that he enters in, He comes with us to the hard places. And so I continue to enter.

  Katie Davis

  Hurt, Jesus, Pain

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• A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

  Mark Waters

  Firsts, First Time, Filmmaker

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• We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sex, Peaceful, Normal

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• I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Writing, Blood, Hands

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

  Bella Abzug

  Race, Half, Never Forget

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• Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Life, Happy, Letting Go

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• We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

  Carsten Juste

  Apology, Cartoon, Facts

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• She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

  Cameron Diaz

  Tourists, Bags, May

  "Diaz apologises for Maoist slogan". news.bbc.co.uk. June 25, 2007.

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• The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Brother, Desperate, Grimm

  YouTube Channel "Yakushima"/"Terry Gilliam in NY Museum of the Moving Image 10/2006", www.youtube.com. November 05, 2006.

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• We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

  Alec Guinness

  Eye, Apology, Men

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• Joe Biden will speak to the nation's largest gay rights group during a human rights convention on Friday. Then on Saturday, he is scheduled to speak to them again to apologize for whatever he said in Friday's speech.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Friday, Gay, Rights

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• I also want to apologize to my fans, to the kids, everyone who's affected by the situation me and my wife are in.

  Ray Rice

  Kids, Apology, Wife

  "Ray Rice's wife slams his punishment for violence against her" By Ashley Fantz, Josh Levs, Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2014.

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