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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack

Social, Criticism, Absurdity

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
Corey Haim

Love, Work, Mistakes

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
Michael Gove

Children, Parents, Long

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson

Government, Business, Big

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
Robert Lanza

Life, Long, Physics

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Barbra Streisand

Truth, Interested, Yes

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.
Arlen Specter

Pretty, Ordinarily

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.
Mindy Kaling

Often, Movie, Surprised

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
Buffalo Bill

Life, Government, Giving

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill

Life, Death, Smile

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
David Mamet

Good, Actor, Tried

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
Dean Koontz

Great, Two, Said

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth

Tried, Above, Beware

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Titus Livius

Past, Criticize, Errors

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole

Beautiful, May, Matter

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder

Time, Trying, Wrong

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Self, Impossible, Difficult

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
Monica Lewinsky

Change, Important, Trying

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista

Become, Until, Mistake

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.
John Sununu

Today, Far, Gone

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock

Sun, Astronomy, Planets

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.
Shahrukh Khan

Claimed, Statements

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard Baruch

Time, Good, Person

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
Maggie Smith

Change, Age, Hope

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
Ron Wyden

Health, Wanted, Create

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
Monica Lewinsky

Him, Trying, Made

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian Mcewan

Important, Done, Regret

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
Beth Ditto

Accept, Question, Feminist

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Talcott Parsons

Tell, Far, Possible

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
Zac Efron

Sports, Last, Body

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