Stupid Mistake Quotes

• People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

  Karin Slaughter

  Mistake, Stupid, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

  John Peel

  Clever, Mistake, Stupid

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

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• The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

  Meles Zenawi

  Mistake, Stupid, Population

  "Interview: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi". Interview with Alex Perry, content.time.com. September 6, 2007.

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• We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

  Allen Steele

  Stupid, Mistake, Such Is Life

  Allen Steele (2002). “Coyote”, p.295, Penguin

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• There were mistakes that I made that I did learn from. When you don't have responsibilities, the only responsibility is for yourself, but when you have someone there to mentor you, then you don't make stupid mistakes.

  John Starks

  Mistake, Stupid, Responsibility

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Mistake, Stupid

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. May 13, 2013.

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• It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

  Peter Kreeft

  Stupid, Mistake, Thinking

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• If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mistake, Stupid, History

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.457, Spectra

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• Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mistake, Stupid, Enemy

  "Ender's Shadow". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1999.

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• Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

  Lauryn Hill

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Mistake, Lying

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• One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

  Afrojack

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.

  Katie Aselton

  Jobs, Mistake, Nice

  "Katie Aselton’s Freebie-jeebies". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Stupid, Pepsi

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• What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

  Paul Schneider

  Mistake, Stupid, Tools

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

  Pete Seeger

  Mistake, Stupid, Made

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Mistake, Age

  Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

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• I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

  Claude Monet

  Morning, Mistake, Stupid

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Zero, Mistake

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• ...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

  Tim Bray

  Mistake, Stupid, Design

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• Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

  Lisa See

  Mistake, Stupid, Men

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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