I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn’t I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.
Kids are always writing me: ‘I had a bad day too.’ ‘I got gum in my hair.’ And the kids also write to me to pass on advice to Alexander. My favorite one of those being, ‘The next time you have a bad day, blame your brothers.’ I didn’t expect this. It’s certainly the most successful of my books.
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.
I would never blame an actor for taking on a role. The only time that I think I have to question why someone’s doing something is when they’re either mocking or trivializing the events that occurred or making it more sensational than it was.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
In this part of the world, due to our historical experiences with the Soviet Union and later with Russia, we are used to a situation where Moscow tends to put the blame on the people whenever a tragedy occurs, rather than on the authorities.
To sit around and blame myself for everything that goes bad or credit myself for everything that’s good, that’s stupid.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
It’s also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the… as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
You can’t blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don’t blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
We need to embrace fitness. We only have to blame ourselves for our lack of fitness.
In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that’s completely misguided.
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: ‘You simply don’t understand – how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?’ But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
Personally, I can’t take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can’t take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates – they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can’t blame them for that.
The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.
I know it’s hard to blame the time, but there’s a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that ‘Superman Returns’ was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don’t think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.
The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it’s pretty ludicrous.
Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you’re responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating – not to blame, but to empower.
Trump is president of the United States. We can’t blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
We want to blame people who have brain disorders – they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It’s a profound misconception.
I played football because I loved the game – but I didn’t enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.
I don’t blame people or ‘pop stars’ or whatever for being so quiet, but you can’t take it too seriously, especially on social media. It’s a very hard thing to be yourself, especially when people are watching, so I don’t blame them for being a bit reserved.
We are told to do good math, lead the country, or go abroad and make million. You can’t blame anyone. That’s the way our children are trained. But what about other things like respecting women and liking your own culture first?
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
So I don’t blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can’t leave everything up to someone else, ’cause then you can look at them and blame them.
Everybody keeps saying that India’s a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
Cabaret presents different challenges, as it is all on me. I love having the freedom to say anything you want – do anything you want. It is a lot of responsibility, and if it works, you get all the kudos, and if not – all the blame.
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It’s not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don’t see a need for change.
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
No one blames themselves if they don’t understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or ‘real’ art; they simply think it’s a bad cartoon.
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
Reinforcement learning is the idea of being able to assign credit or blame to all the actions you took along the way while you were getting that reward signal.
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can’t stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
I have rather skinny legs – I blame my dad’s side of the family.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
Listen, the guy was not created by coverage from MSNBC and CNN. If you want to blame us for making Donald Trump president because you’re unhappy about it, I think you are deluding yourself. Donald Trump hit a nerve.
Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet.
If at first you don’t succeed, blame your parents.
If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
My mum came from nothing and didn’t have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
I’ve been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.
