Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • George Bernard Shaw What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shapiro What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • George H.W. Bush What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Anna Pavlova When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Eugene V. Debs When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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  • Charles de Gaulle When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Betty Williams When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Bob Parsons When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Dean Martin When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
    Dean Martin
    American film actor and singer (1917 - 1995)
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  • Oscar Wilde When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bipasha Basu When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Charles A. Stoddard When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
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  • Mae West When women go wrong, men go right after them.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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