Quotes with wrong-headed

Quotes 161 till 180 of 559.

  • Alan Dershowitz I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Rebecca West I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Lord George Byron I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Vivien Leigh I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
    Vivien Leigh
    English actress (1913 - 1967)
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  • Theresa May I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Brad Pitt I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
    Brad Pitt
    American actor and filmmaker (1963 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Mertz I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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  • Bill Nye I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Becki Newton I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aaron Copland If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Jenny Weber If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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