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I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to write a book for adults?' I think the better ambition is to try to write someone's favorite book, because those categorizations of adult, young adult, become kind of superfluous.

If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

My favorite players in January aren't those living the charmed playoff life, but the guys who can get up when they're knocked down, who forget the last mistake so they can make the next big play.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do, and you make the mistake of relying on people.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

The only person, if you're a religious person, who's always right is God. And if you make the mistake of thinking that you, like God, are always right, and that you, like God, always know everything, then it seems to me you're riding for a fall.

George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

I've made pretty much every mistake you can make as a young man, eating and drinking the wrong things at the wrong times.

My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.

Not a lot of people like to do that - make a mistake and go in front of people, and say, 'I did this. I did that.' At the end of the road, everyone respects you more.

A bunch of guys are going to look at me and say hey, this guy made a mistake but he didn't quit.

When you make a mistake in life, no matter what you do, you're going to pay the price.

What I do is I get the sheet music and I put it out for myself and then I use a visual tuner to go through each note individually. And every time I make a mistake, I start the song over again, so I use the muscle memory of intervals and then watching that tuner, and then a lot of repetition.

I'm not scared to sing songs. I'm not scared to walk out the front door and make a mistake.

I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of anything else or creating any other dream.