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• Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

  Karen Cushman

  Mistake, Food, Made

  Karen Cushman (1996). “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

  Michael Connelly

  Mistake, Book, Writing

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• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  Maggie Grace

  Mistake, Thinking, Creating

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• I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Mistake, Thinking, Faults

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Bigs, Stage

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mistake, America, People

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• I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mistake, College, Here I Am

  "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.

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• We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mistake, Ideas, Needs

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• We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

  Robert Glaser

  Mistake, Thinking, Apples

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• One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

  Robert Holden

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "What are you willing to do to be happy?". www.cnn.com. February 11, 2008.

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• Bute coming over here is a big mistake.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Mistake, Fighter

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• There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

  Charles de Lint

  Religious, Mistake, Apples

  Charles de Lint (2009). “Muse and Reverie: A Newford Collection”, p.147, Macmillan

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• A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

  Curtis Jackson

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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• People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold.

  Billy Mills

  Dream, Mistake, Believe

  "Believe, Believe, Believe: Billy Mills' Own Story - from Desperation to Winning Gold". Interview with Duncan Larkin, www.takethemagicstep.com. May 28, 2010.

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• The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Mistake, Race, Bigs

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• George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

  Marc Rich

  War, Mistake, Iraq

  "Glencore IPO Pushes Ex-Fugitive Billionaire Marc Rich Out Of The Shadows" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. May 23, 2011.

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• It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, People, Trying

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". "The Charlie Rose Show", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

  Patty Hearst

  Mistake, Crime, Bigs

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• We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.

  Irene Cara

  Country, Mistake, Mean

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• In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Mistake, Winning

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• You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

  Kelly Link

  Mistake, People, Narrative

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• I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

  Akio Morita

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 186), 1986.

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• It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Mistake, Pride

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• Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Trying, Bankers

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• Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not yet. Go out and do some crazy stuff. Don't hurt anybody including yourself, but take some risks. Travel a little bit. Make big mistakes that you have to apologize for. Do stuff that will make you relatable to the world. And whatever jobs you settle into, you will be better at it, for it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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