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The protests will continue unless Netanyahu will note publicly that he was mistaken when leading that reform, and (that) he is holding all future motivations to renew the judicial reform, this is the only scenario where we will see a complete stop of all the demonstrations. – Major General Tamir Hayman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
...it's often mistaken to accept something as true merely because it's obvious. The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue. – Sherlock Holmes	added by milly_b 1 year ago
I didn’t believe it, then I came closer, i had one of my colleagues with me. I asked him if he sees this dead man as my father. I looked around, waiting for anyone to say that I was mistaken. But it was my father. – Elias Al-Ashqar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It would be very mistaken to think that you just end Andrew Tate, and that would be the end of it. Andrew Tate is one figure in this whole kind of movement. And one of the reasons for this movement is … the online space has been left to these people with very little pushback because they act in a very aggressive way, there are many … moderate or mainstream Muslim leaders, figures, personalities who refuse to engage in these forums, in this online space, because they don’t want to deal with these people. – Javad Hashmi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Michael and I go way back and it's all been like a source of a lot of fun for us because over the years, we've been mistaken for each other all over the place all over Atlanta, there's been some really interesting situations that have come out just because people thought we were the other person. – Charlie Chasen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He is badly mistaken, or being misled, or ignorant, I don’t know which of those it is, but he's just plain wrong. What he claims is ridiculous. And when you have people who have done very, very dangerous things that have negatively impacted the community, they should not be released after short prison sentences. – Kathy Cady	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Israel is a strong ally of the United States, and they are surrounded by neighbors in a very dangerous part of the world. It's not Israel's job to win the war in Ukraine, and I think American politicians that are using the war in Ukraine to attack Israel are mistaken in doing so. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The intelligence community has assessed that the transfer of MiG-29s may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO. – Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Therefore, we believe that the gain from transferring those MiG 29s is low, the intelligence community has assessed that the transfer of MiG-29s may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO. – Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sally Kellerman and I used to laugh at how much people preferred to believe that we were competitive or at odds with each other, the truth is that we were such good friends and enjoyed being mistaken for each other. I am very saddened by Sally Kellerman passing. – Loretta Swit	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're at a pivotal point in history, and if we don't stop this, we're just going to go down the deeper slide, and if we don't think that it's coming here to the U.S., we're woefully mistaken. – Cindy Chafian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Long Journey Home : A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust, she was mistaken. This was very much against my race, my Jewishness. – Lucy Lipiner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I know that San Francisco is a compassionate city. We are a city that prides ourselves on second chances and rehabilitation, but we're not a city where anything goes. Our compassion should be mistaken for weakness or indifference. – San Francisco	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Mistaken gunfire has extinguished another innocent life, i offer my condolences to her family. Please, put down the guns.If you have a gun in your home, secure it with a trigger lock or in a safe.Never, never handle a gun near children. – Cavalier Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If anyone believes we have even come close to solving issues of racism and discrimination, they're mistaken. If I'm afraid to go for a run, go buy a snack, go to sleep in my own bed behind my own locked door, we aren't finished working yet. – Ashley Jones	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As a Black woman in America, racism is absolutely inescapable. It shows up in all the little places and all the big places and all the places you don't expect. Sometimes it's in a textbook. Sometimes it's in a purse grabbed as I walk by, sometimes it's in a question about my hair, my skin, if anyone believes we have even come close to solving issues of racism and discrimination, they're mistaken. If I'm afraid to go for a run, go buy a snack, go to sleep in my own bed behind my own locked door, we aren't finished working yet. – Ashley Jones	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Democrats are losing, everywhere, because voters are rejecting their agenda that's causing inflation and crime to surge around the country, if they think they can count on their liberal donors to bail them out, they are sorely mistaken. – Chris Hartline	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do believe that somehow she needs to take the jury back, have the jury step into her shoes, and try to understand what she was going through in that moment, the terror, she needs the jury to understand that she was mistaken, but not so mistaken that it becomes criminal. – Randy Zellin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Jones repeatedly and unequivocally told his attorneys that his parents were mistaken and that he was not at home the night of the murder. – Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Crabb	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you think we can’t focus simultaneously on gun violence, you’re truly mistaken, we have eyes on both areas, which are equally important. – Juanita Holmes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
None whatsoever, zero. What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy, six, if I’m not mistaken. The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy … of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I gave them a list, if I ’m not mistaken — I don't have it in front of me — 16 specific entities ; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They were also such happy, joyful people. He always had a story to tell, and she always spoke so kindly of my mother, originally there were rumors that he had been found, but it was a case of mistaken identity. It would be a miracle if they’re found alive. – Fortuna Smukler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack — period — by cyber or any other means. I gave them a list, if I’m not mistaken — I don't have it in front of me — 16 specific entities; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

The protests will continue unless Netanyahu will note publicly that he was mistaken when leading that reform, and (that) he is holding all future motivations to renew the judicial reform, this is the only scenario where we will see a complete stop of all the demonstrations.

– Major General Tamir Hayman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

...it's often mistaken to accept something as true merely because it's obvious. The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.

– Sherlock Holmes

added by milly_b
1 year ago

I didn’t believe it, then I came closer, i had one of my colleagues with me. I asked him if he sees this dead man as my father. I looked around, waiting for anyone to say that I was mistaken. But it was my father.

– Elias Al-Ashqar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be very mistaken to think that you just end Andrew Tate, and that would be the end of it. Andrew Tate is one figure in this whole kind of movement. And one of the reasons for this movement is … the online space has been left to these people with very little pushback because they act in a very aggressive way, there are many … moderate or mainstream Muslim leaders, figures, personalities who refuse to engage in these forums, in this online space, because they don’t want to deal with these people.

– Javad Hashmi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Michael and I go way back and it's all been like a source of a lot of fun for us because over the years, we've been mistaken for each other all over the place all over Atlanta, there's been some really interesting situations that have come out just because people thought we were the other person.

– Charlie Chasen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He is badly mistaken, or being misled, or ignorant, I don’t know which of those it is, but he's just plain wrong. What he claims is ridiculous. And when you have people who have done very, very dangerous things that have negatively impacted the community, they should not be released after short prison sentences.

– Kathy Cady

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Israel is a strong ally of the United States, and they are surrounded by neighbors in a very dangerous part of the world. It's not Israel's job to win the war in Ukraine, and I think American politicians that are using the war in Ukraine to attack Israel are mistaken in doing so.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The intelligence community has assessed that the transfer of MiG-29s may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO.

– Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Therefore, we believe that the gain from transferring those MiG 29s is low, the intelligence community has assessed that the transfer of MiG-29s may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO.

– Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sally Kellerman and I used to laugh at how much people preferred to believe that we were competitive or at odds with each other, the truth is that we were such good friends and enjoyed being mistaken for each other. I am very saddened by Sally Kellerman passing.

– Loretta Swit

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're at a pivotal point in history, and if we don't stop this, we're just going to go down the deeper slide, and if we don't think that it's coming here to the U.S., we're woefully mistaken.

– Cindy Chafian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Long Journey Home : A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust, she was mistaken. This was very much against my race, my Jewishness.

– Lucy Lipiner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I know that San Francisco is a compassionate city. We are a city that prides ourselves on second chances and rehabilitation, but we're not a city where anything goes. Our compassion should be mistaken for weakness or indifference.

– San Francisco

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mistaken gunfire has extinguished another innocent life, i offer my condolences to her family. Please, put down the guns.If you have a gun in your home, secure it with a trigger lock or in a safe.Never, never handle a gun near children.

– Cavalier Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If anyone believes we have even come close to solving issues of racism and discrimination, they're mistaken. If I'm afraid to go for a run, go buy a snack, go to sleep in my own bed behind my own locked door, we aren't finished working yet.

– Ashley Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a Black woman in America, racism is absolutely inescapable. It shows up in all the little places and all the big places and all the places you don't expect. Sometimes it's in a textbook. Sometimes it's in a purse grabbed as I walk by, sometimes it's in a question about my hair, my skin, if anyone believes we have even come close to solving issues of racism and discrimination, they're mistaken. If I'm afraid to go for a run, go buy a snack, go to sleep in my own bed behind my own locked door, we aren't finished working yet.

– Ashley Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Democrats are losing, everywhere, because voters are rejecting their agenda that's causing inflation and crime to surge around the country, if they think they can count on their liberal donors to bail them out, they are sorely mistaken.

– Chris Hartline

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do believe that somehow she needs to take the jury back, have the jury step into her shoes, and try to understand what she was going through in that moment, the terror, she needs the jury to understand that she was mistaken, but not so mistaken that it becomes criminal.

– Randy Zellin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jones repeatedly and unequivocally told his attorneys that his parents were mistaken and that he was not at home the night of the murder.

– Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Crabb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you think we can’t focus simultaneously on gun violence, you’re truly mistaken, we have eyes on both areas, which are equally important.

– Juanita Holmes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

None whatsoever, zero. What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy, six, if I’m not mistaken. The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy … of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I gave them a list, if I ’m not mistaken — I don't have it in front of me — 16 specific entities ; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were also such happy, joyful people. He always had a story to tell, and she always spoke so kindly of my mother, originally there were rumors that he had been found, but it was a case of mistaken identity. It would be a miracle if they’re found alive.

– Fortuna Smukler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack — period — by cyber or any other means. I gave them a list, if I’m not mistaken — I don't have it in front of me — 16 specific entities; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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