People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.
The genius of you Americans is that you never made clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves.
Copeland had retired but took on “assignments” for the CIA one of which was as a “go-between” with Nasser.
No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
When you're young, you're stupid.
We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
How easy it is to say the wrong thing! How easy it is not to recognize one has said the wrong thing!
I may do some cringey and crazy things, but for crying out loud, I have Nikki Bella calling me out.
I am not nice. That has gotten me into a lot of trouble.
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
I took a lot of wrong decisions, and got talked into a lot of things. Of course, if I could go back in time, I might change some things, but wouldn't everyone? I have no regrets.
The Chilcot report is damning. It exposes a litany of failures over a long period, including reliance on flawed intelligence assessments, lack of planning and insufficient foresight of obvious consequences. But the report also exposes a chilling lack of rigour and a political culture of deference.
Starting off, I was pretty arrogant. They handed an 18-year-old the keys to a D1 FBS-contending university. I blew up a little bit, said some things I didn't mean, and that follows you. You get one chance to make a first impression. I made the wrong one.
Dorks are not exempt from bad behaviour.
Walk on air against your better judgement.
I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.
You have to go through your reads and you have to make smart decisions because if you start forcing it in to double coverage you will get into bad habits and that is when bad plays happen.