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Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

That would have been a big plus for the president. You get the blame when you're the top dog. And in this case, I think there is no doubt that we had inadequate preparation and we've had inadequate response.

We set up to throw long if it was wide open and it was wide open. We just made a bad throw, but you can't blame the kids because that what we told them to do.

We've seen that a lot, and I don't blame him. Did you see that ball he hit in the fourth?

There is a lot of blame to go around. But on the American side, the conceptual failure that contributed to disaster was the president's belief that democracy and elections solve everything.

There is a lot of blame to spread around.

There are detractors of ethanol, who given the opportunity, always like to blame ethanol. The facts suggest otherwise.

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

There are more jokes about losers than there are books about losers. The most common volumes you see written about them are the bumper stickers during the next administration: Don't blame me; I voted for the loser.

Yes, it absolutely suggests that. It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out.

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

We want that officer to know that we don't blame him whatsoever, because we know it must affect him.

This really is about the predators. When it comes to blame you can only point the finger at the defendants.

Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.

You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

To turn around and blame the parties? He's the governor. He's the one who can make things happen.

Tim will get more comfortable, ... He's a great talent, but he's a freshman. He'll be a good punter, and he'll learn from it. He was nervous, and I can't say that I blame him. I was nervous, too.

We're not going to blame this game on anyone but ourselves.

We're not going to blame this game on anyone but ourselves. We lost the game. They played better than we did. They didn't make the mistakes. ... They didn't make the penalties, and we did.

To blame this on lone mad people is dangerous, because these mad people could explode the whole country.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

We probably played the worst game of the week tonight. It's definitely a big disappointment. I put a lot of blame on myself. I came out flat. I didn't play as well as I wanted.

The politically safe thing to would be to do nothing, and then blame the hurricane for any subsequent problems. But that's not leadership.

We are a completely different team put together especially for this tournament. I cant blame the players because we were not really ready for these matches.

We are really very sorry for every casualty but the one who is responsible for that directly is Arafat, ... There is no reason to blame anybody else.

We gave them way too much ice. I hate to put the blame on anything. We just didn't do the job.

We've got no one to blame for this but ourselves. We let the Big Ten Tournament get away after finishing the regular-season so well.

We were a little tentative, and who wouldn't be? This game, you're building toward it your whole career, and you get it, and everybody's in the building. I can't blame the kids for being tight. And we didn't work our way out of it as quickly as I thought we could have.

The Democrats have every incentive, knowing there will be rolling blackouts in California this summer, to try to get a bill to put price caps on utilities. It's good politics to blame the energy companies for high prices.

We starve them, ... We don't give them the resources they need and then blame them for the results.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

When you are 2-10 you can't blame the coaching staff for going in a different direction. We played different people ... it was simply strategic and we will do that the rest of the year.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

The credibility should be pretty high, very high. If law enforcement had the note, then it should pretty clearly direct blame only at that individual.

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

What we see happening is exactly what he said was going to happen, ... It kind of puts you in a hard position to then have any kind of deniability. You can try to blame other people if he wants, but it's a little bit of a stretch in credibility in light of what he said before he got here.

What we see happening is exactly what he said was going to happen. It kind of puts you in a hard position to then have any kind of deniability. You can try to blame other people if he wants, but it's a little bit of a stretch in credibility in light of what he said before he got here.

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

Blame is for God and small children.

When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

Winning solves everything. It really does. It's like a magic pill. ... When you have a record like ours, people want to know why. They want to assess blame to somebody when sometimes there's no blame to assess.

While oil companies continue to blame crude oil prices and ethanol additives for the recent gasoline price spikes in California, the chief cause is increased profiteering by oil companies that have previously posted world record profits.

Those who will not heed themselves perish. To understand this principle is not to be impatient, not to reproach fate, not to blame others. He who understands the doctrine of self-help blames himself for failure.

We can't put all three phases of the game together. There isn't one phase to blame necessarily.

We put out a budget in February that lays out where we stand. It's hard to blame us for the fact that they are well behind on their work.

We put the blame on a 14-year-old for the sins and omissions of the adults. This could have been prevented if those adults who stood by came forward, yet we expect him to act with greater courage.

When people blame words they are actually blaming the society that uses them. Dictionaries just reflect the words that society uses.

When I was home this weekend, no one I talked to had any interest in talking about who was to blame for Hurricane Katrina. But almost everyone wanted to talk about how we're going to pay for it.

There has been questionable calls all year long. It's black, white and gray this year, the officiating. You can't blame them, but is it frustrating? Yeah, it is frustrating.

We said we couldn't wait to get home, that all those losses we could blame on the road. We're glad we're here. It's a big confidence builder for us.

We would argue and blame each other too much. We're sisters - we like to fight.

We should not encourage lawsuits that blame others for our own choices and could bankrupt an entire industry.

We shouldn't try to blame humans for all of this.

I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.

All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez.

A bad workman blames his tools.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar.

We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.

I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. I give Boston credit. They hung in and did what they have to do to win the game.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. It shouldn't have come down to this late in the season. It's our own fault.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now is the only time to prove ourselves. Otherwise, we'll go home.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.

Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

The refs are under a microscope. So we can't blame them.

We are all frustrated. Mike is frustrated and I don't blame him. We are not playing the type of basketball to win a championship.

We were devastated and in shock, but we had no one to blame but ourselves.

The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and where perfect judgment would have advised against going?

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.