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• What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

  James Clavell

  Sorry, Second Chance, Stranger

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.

  Judith Martin

  Good Night, Morning, Flower

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Charity, Philanthropy, Tragic

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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• Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Pigs, Inward

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• Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Layers, Letters

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• In his apology, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was sorry to the women that he groped, and he admitted that he had acted badly. Not only that, Arnold then apologized for acting badly in all of his movies.

  Conan O'Brien

  Sorry, Acting, Schwarzenegger

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• Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Children, War

  "The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

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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, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I stand by everything I've
  ever said, apologies included.

  Fiona Apple

  Said

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it's tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing.

  Elijah

  Responsibility, Giving, Bless

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• Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

  Fiona Apple

  Done, Said, Made

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Mean, Attention

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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, Men, Slave Owners

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• I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Writing, Thinking, World

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press

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• I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.

  Robert Altman

  Boys, Years, Eight

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• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  Margery Allingham

  Brother, Nice, Doe

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Apologizing, Permission, Easier

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• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  Carolyn Wells

  Pride, Fire, Library

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.

  Tiger Woods

  Hurt, Kids, People

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fun, Firsts, Making Money

  "Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary on business, fortune and family". Interview with Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2011.

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• We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Listening To Others, Offering

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• Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Poetry, Musical

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• It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Mind, World

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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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, Should Have, President

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• The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Phrases, Ends

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