I don’t blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
The nameless loser in Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country’s problems.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He’s so amazed. And so happy.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It’s very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It’s people looking for scapegoats, you know?
When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don’t understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
I envy people who drink – at least they know what to blame everything on.
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can’t blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That’s my message.
In football, you win as a group, you lose as a group; you divide the credit and the blame.
I don’t accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don’t like what it’s become. I don’t blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It’s got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.
Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.
I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.
What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it’s never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don’t blame Hollywood for my family’s problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
People really haven’t seen me in good shape. I understand that. I created that by myself. There is no one else to blame but me.
I don’t ever wanna blame my body for not being right.
If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that’s when I’m going to start to get really angry.
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!
If someone’s liver doesn’t work, we blame it on the genes; if someone’s brain doesn’t work properly, we blame the school. It’s actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don’t want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
When analysis and opinion are invited, various viewpoints should be represented. Allegations of political blame, when they occur, should be reasonably challenged on all sides, as good journalism requires.
For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.
Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she’ll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I’ve got no one left to blame.
I’m not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I’m not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that’s not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there’s no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
I know a lot of people who’ve lost their siblings and blame themselves.
I really can’t blame anyone but myself, because I didn’t have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you’re young, and there’s so much helium going on around you, you can’t decipher the real end.
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
You can’t put the blame squarely on one person. Casting couch is not just about one person who says ‘come and compromise.’ The other person is also willing to compromise. It’s always a two-way street.
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
Of course, I’m not often the top dog, but sometimes it’s better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, ‘He couldn’t carry it.’ They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.
It’s not my style to blame anybody else.
I’m not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don’t overanalyze, either.
I have long since passed that period when I felt personal discomfort at the sight of an ill-dressed or illiterate Negro. Social awareness has taught me where to lay the blame.
You can’t blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can’t, it might not be your inadequacy that’s to blame. ‘Good’ books can be pretty awful sometimes.
It’s very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I’m not made that way.
Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do not blame my mother for a second that they were not on tap in hers, either.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.
I’ve rarely talked about Obama’s share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate.
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t learn nothing, cause hey, it’s not your fault, it’s his fault, over there.
If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can’t just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.
If Australia and England are finding it difficult to sell their broadcasting rights you can’t blame BCCI for that.
I’ve never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn’t have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it’s only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
If you want to enter hell, don’t complain of the dark; you can’t blame the world for being unfair if you start on the path of the rebel.
When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry’s house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi.
In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs – monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism – have been working their way through the culture ever since.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
I understand when results don’t go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You’ve got to take the good with bad.
