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In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

Dwight Howard

Stuff, Way, Orlando

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I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Harold Ford, Jr.

Sex, Gay, Thinking

Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

Rupert Everett

Ties, Way, Tie Dye

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Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

Spencer Abraham

Done, Way, Policy

"Online Extra: Q&A with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham". Interview with Laura Cohn, www.bloomberg.com. April 9, 2001.

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There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Swizz Beatz

Art, Expression, Way

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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

Youssou N'Dour

Giving, Musician, Records

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It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

Richard Hamming

Science, Way, Problem

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I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

Elizabeth McGovern

Believe, People, Energy

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

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When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

Andy Murray

Country, War, Thinking

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

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My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

William Ivey Long

Running, Mind, Fabric

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Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.

Chris Johnson

Afar, Way, Brushes

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There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitting, Issues, Important

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.45, Storey Publishing

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I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

Tennessee Williams

Taken, Hero, Believe

Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Agatha Christie

Mean, Interesting, Way

Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

Peg Bracken

Way, Easy, Found

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Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

James Dyson

Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.

John C. Bogle

Way, Firsts, Emotion

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He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

Dennis Kucinich

Government, Justice, Purpose

Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 22, 2004.

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I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

Funny, Mean, Orchestra

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Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Children, Crazy, Despair

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Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.

J. K. Rowling

Cheer, Jumping, Covering

J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Kindness, Way, Acts Of Kindness

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Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

Benjamin Carson

Mistake, Errors, People

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More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

Simon Mainwaring

Mean, Responsibility, Impact

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going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

Jostein Gaarder

Way

Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.158, Hachette UK

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