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• You don't know where life's gonna take you. Sometimes it takes you getting carried out of a club and then into a booth as an apology for it.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Clubs, Sometimes, Knows

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• Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street.

  Andy Kindler

  Guy, Apologizing, Homophobic

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• Ladies, apologies, but isn't 'vintage' just used stuff?

  Bob Saget

  Vintage, Stuff, Used

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

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• When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sorry, Way, Faults

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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• The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.

  Chelsea Handler

  Father, People, Parent

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• In no way was I intending to say, nor have I ever thought, that the men and women who defend our nation in uniform are anything but courageous and valiant, and I offer my apologies to anyone who took it wrong.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Uniforms, Way

  "Maher Apologizes for 'Cowards' Remark". abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2001.

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• There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Integrity, Men, Tests

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

  Alan Clark

  Work, Giving, Wrecks

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• Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Country, Pain, War

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• I didn't have anything to apologize for.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Apologizing, Economy

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• A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

  Gwen Ifill

  Upset, Littles, Apologizing

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

  Mike Figgis

  People, Trying, Hearing

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• I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

  Richard Shelby

  Support, Effort, Alabama

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• It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Apologizing

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• I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

  Kevin Shelley

  Apologizing, I Apologize, Persons

  "SHELLEY QUITS / Secretary of state says controversies over fund raising, use of federal money and his volatile temper damaged his office's 'ability to function effectively'" by Christian Berthelsen, Vanessa Hua and John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2005.

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• I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

  Lynndie England

  America, Soldier, Apologizing

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• You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

  David Morse

  Running, Cameras, Apologizing

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• I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

  Benjamin Day

  Home, Apologizing, Forget

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Media, People, Chinese

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, People, Laid Back

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• But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid for it. You work hard during the day, and when you are tired in the evening you go to a concert to watch others dancing. It is all you can do, but it is not even an apology for celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, Differences

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• rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

  John J. McCloy

  Rejection, Redress, Rejected

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• I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

  Guy Clark

  Littles, Goofy, Apologizing

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• In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  Negativity, Defense, Littles

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