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• I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Hands, Two

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Mistake, People, Stage

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

  Dave Hickey

  Gossip, Complaining, Shut Up

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Guilt, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Hunting, Fishing, Fishes

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• If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

  Michelle Shocked

  Mistake, Apology, Want

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Pain, Animal, Hands

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Easier, Permission

  Grace Murray Hopper, Chantal Mompoullan (1984*). “Voice of America Interviews with Eight American Women of Achievement”

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• The Top 10 Most Effective Things That You Can Say: 1. Thank you very much. 2, You are so right. 3. How can I help you right now? 4. I ask that you ... 5. I apologize for for what has happened. 6. Why is that? 7. Are you willing to ...? 8. I love you. 9. Will you help me? 10. Yes.

  Thomas Leonard

  Love You, Top 10, Helping

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• The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was even in office the last time America saw a lynching. Some were not even born. But that's the way we prefer our apologies in American politics. We don't apologize for our own sins.

  Mona Charen

  Sorry, Apology, America

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• The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, People, Black

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fairness, Modern, States

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  Maeve Binchy

  Life Is Too Short, Winning, Thinking

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• It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

  Grace Hopper

  Business, Done, Approval

  Quoted in Computer world, 10 Sept. 1984.

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• Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.

  Goldie Hawn

  Hard

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• I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom religion is most important.This I cannot apologize for. I’m sorry but it is unacceptable to watch my mother crying because of this. I think everyone who has a family will understand the pain we are going through now.If you don’t like me, you can just tell me to my face. Don’t come near my parents.

  Shila Amzah

  Mother, Sorry, Pain

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• Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mistake, Errors, Looks

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.104, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Simple, Asking, What You Deserve

  "‘Morning Joe’ Co-Host Mika Brzezinksi’s Favorite Things" by Miller Mobley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

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• That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Marriage, Dream

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.

  John Barrowman

  People, Geek, Nerdy

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• I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

  Farley Mowat

  Writing, People, Ontario

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• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  Kara Lindsay

  Stupid, Speak, Know How

  "'Newsies' Cast Talks Broadway and Big Breaks". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

  Carlos Mencia

  Country, White

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• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Men, Fur

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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