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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.