Wrong Way Quotes - Page 6

• Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

  Moby

  People, Listening, Way

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• We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dream, Taken, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.215, Bantam

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• Don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Smell, Way, Humour

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2011

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• I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.

  Jason Statham

  Thinking, Maps, Levels

  "AGENT ORANGE: Jason Statham Interview Part II: JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS of MARS". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 28, 2001.

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• I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?

  Bette Midler

  Years, Stories, Way

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• Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, Im not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

  Doug Stanhope

  Taken, Racism, Might

  "Doug Stanhope on alcohol, politics and killing comedy Bootleggers's families". Interview with Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. June 11, 2006.

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• I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Grief, Grieving, Cereal

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• In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Team, Differences

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• I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

  Umberto Eco

  Mazes, Matter, Way

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• Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Healing, Ignorance, Accountability

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• What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Fun, Mean, Today

  "Comedy Showrunners Week: New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether laughs at her characters' pain". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

  Emmylou Harris

  Country, Children, Patriotic

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• There's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool.

  Will Forte

  Use, Way, Pool

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• I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Differences, Personality

  "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005.

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• If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

  Jane Wagner

  People, Might, Way

  Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion

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• It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. It inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness. It's leading people down a rabbit hole that actually doesn't exist. So people think like, "Yo, once I get this money and these cars and stuff, I'ma be so happy." But that's not true. And I feel like that's why it's very important to educate people on different things while you are actually on social media.

  Jaden Smith

  Thinking, Media, Car

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

  Miles Franklin

  Mother, Thinking, Wind

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Party, Thinking

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• There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

  Emily Carr

  Trying, Way, Painting

  Emily Carr (2009). “Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings”, p.76, D & M Publishers

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• There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

  Moby

  Self, Practice, Meditation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.

  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

  Cutting, Shadow, Energy

  New Statesman, January 5, 2012.

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• Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

  Vance Havner

  Real, World, Way

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Stupid, Imperfection

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 01, 2014

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• Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

  John Bolton

  Country, People, Way

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• There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

  Maria Sharapova

  Names, Way

  "Maria Sharapova on her comeback, her love of competition and more". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. June 15, 2012.

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