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I don't write books inadvertently. -- A. N. Wilson
Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently. -- Graeme Simsion
I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently. -- Larry David
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. -- Chelsea Clinton
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong. -- Amber Heard
We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up. -- LZ Granderson
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. -- Jack Dee
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. -- William Greider
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. -- John Grisham
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian. -- Mohsin Hamid
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. -- John Calvin
I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings. -- Darren Criss
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. -- Terry Pratchett
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions. -- Tobias Wolff
We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets. -- David Letterman
I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. -- Douglas Coupland
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more. -- Jeff Goodell
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering. -- Carre Otis
One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally. -- Mike Huckabee
Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors. -- Nick Moran
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will. -- Joshua Malina
If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road. -- LZ Granderson
You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit. -- Lesley Gore
Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances. -- Lee Trevino
I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me. -- Keahu Kahuanui
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth. -- Michael Kinsley
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles. -- Don Van Vliet
When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. -- Peggy Toney Horton
What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton -- Peggy Toney Horton
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently. -- Keith Richards
I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life. -- Holland Taylor
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. -- Edward Lear
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China. -- Cameron Diaz
We are inadvertently in love with the Influence of Power and we need to be in love with the Power of Influence. -- Michael Grinder
I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave. -- William Maxwell
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance. -- Louis Kronenberger
It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more. -- Vince Gilligan
You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently. -- Jim Courier
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. -- Amory Lovins
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap. -- Charles A. Murray
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century, -- Paul Romer
I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial. -- Mark Galli
What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this. -- Graham Nelson
Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck. -- Karen Karbo
The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules. -- Rebekah Nathan
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem. -- Clay Shirky
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer. -- Gary Null
With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously. -- William J. Mann
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized. -- Elliot W. Eisner
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. -- Amory Lovins
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs. -- Robert Metcalfe
It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding. -- Darryl Pinckney
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events. -- Epictetus
This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard. -- J. K. Rowling
I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent. -- Dambisa Moyo

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