Faults Quotes - Page 24

• Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Vanity, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.110, HarperCollins UK

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• What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Men, Differences, Together

  "Did You Say Something, Dear?" by Jenna McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I'll take you that way, too.

  Steve Goodier

  Sports, Mean, Perfect

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• It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.

  Colin Powell

  Hands, People, Energy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is a war on terror that must be fought. Nobody's immune... And so rather than finding fault with what Spain has done by being aggressive in the war on terror, this should redouble everyone's efforts to go after terrorist organizations of any kind... Terror has to be brought to an end.

  Colin Powell

  War, Organization, Effort

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

  Barack Obama

  Drinking, Wife, Blame

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You can't fault people for who they vote for, who they don't vote for.

  Mike Holloway

  People, Vote

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• I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke because you want to be just like you're fat because you want to be or stupid because you want to be or unemployed, it must be because you want to be. Otherwise, it'd be different.

  Larry Winget

  Philosophy, Stupid, Simple

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.

  Lady Gaga

  Believe, Artist, People

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• I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

  Stacy Barthe

  Lying, Mean, Play

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

  Joel Osteen

  Destiny, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Mind, Acting

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

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• There was a time when I let go of the reins and thought, What's meant to happen will happen. That's probably one of my biggest faults as a person, and something that I've had to work really hard on: believing in this idea that the universe will decide for me. The universe is not going to decide in your favor.

  Rashida Jones

  Letting Go, Believe, Ideas

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2013.

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• I think the biggest faults that bands tend to have in terms of drama or breaking up is bands don't learn people's personalities. When you spend as much time with people obviously it's going to rub off, and you are going to get to know the way people are. You can make sure day to day people are accommodated to and people feel positive about the experience, then you can stay together as a band, at least that is my opinion.

  Andy Biersack

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Hatred, Enemy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Humanity, Flesh

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

  Elizabeth Warren

  Winning, Men, Speaks Out

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• And freedom comes with grace, kindness, understanding, and love. Don't take anything personal, folks. Whatever is said about you or rumored or you heard something - you haven't done anything wrong and it's not your fault. That is your own self-invisible anchor that will stop your boat of life from going forward.

  Gary Busey

  Kindness, Self, Anchors

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thoughtful, Years, Ideas

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Drunk, Twelve, Austin

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Iran, President

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.

  Chris Rock

  Believe, Law, Comedian

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Government, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.

  Rory Carroll

  Lazy, Target, Opponents

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• There was one time where I failed to perform sexually. My girlfriend said to me "oh don't worry, it happens to a lot of guys". Ok, there are two things wrong with that. First of all who are these other guys?, and second of all if it's happening to more than one of us, don't you think it could be YOUR fault?

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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