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We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.