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• The New Black doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation: it’s a mentality and it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side you’re going to be on.

  Pharrell Williams

  Dream, Race, Issues

  "Why Pharrell Williams believes in 'The New Black'". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.theguardian.com. April, 2014.

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• I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

  Joan Caulfield

  Stars, Character, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Team, Games, Together

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• Never worry about missing a field goal. Just blame the holder and think about making the next one.

  Lou Groza

  Thinking, Goal, Worry

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• I believe that when we treat homosexual people as pariahs and push them outside our communities and churches; when we blame them for who they are; when we deny them our blessing on their commitment to lifelong, faithful relationships, we make them doubt whether they are children of God, made in his image.

  Steve Chalke

  Children, Believe, Commitment

  "Stop treating gay people as pariahs, evangelical minister tells church" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

  Blythe Masters

  Believe, Tools, Credit

  "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.

  Ayya Khema

  Real, War, Impact

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• Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  Kate Elliott

  Father, Ignorance, Design

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• No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Kings, Past, Trying

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• Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Responsibility, Empowering

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• Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? … I'd rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that's just not reality. … I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

  Kobe Bryant

  Mean, Reality, Hands

  "Kobe Bryant's leadership doctrine" by Brian Kamenetzky, www.espn.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Jobs, War, Men

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• If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

  Confucius

  Anger, Men, Influence

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1141, Delphi Classics

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• Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

  Ezra Pound

  Religion, Atheism, Heroic

  "The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941".

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• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  Bryan Singer

  Summer, Thinking, People

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

  John Miller

  Business, Personal Accountability, Full Potential

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• If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

  Angela Carter

  Able, Barbarians, Ifs

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• For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Forever, Advice

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.244, Vintage

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• I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Simple, Reality, Views

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• Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

  Bill Watterson

  Disappointment, People, Risk

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• A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Doe, Lips

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.118, Anchor

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• Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

  Homer

  Guy, Speak

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• When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

  Thucydides

  Men, Liberty, Use

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• To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

  Fabius Maximus

  Men, Office, Opinion

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