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SAT (exam) scores have gone right down the toilet. The parents are blaming the teachers, the teachers are blaming the parents and the psychs are putting everyone on drugs.

- Tom Cruise

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn`t make much money. I`m gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years` time and really enjoys it.

- Kevin Costner

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I`m not blaming the reporters. It`s the system.

- Jimmy Smits

It`s not blaming the victim. It`s not anybody`s fault. They just did something that didn`t work, that`s all.

- Kary Mullis

I don`t accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy`s recent troubles. The monarchy`s responsible for the monarchy`s recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

- Anthony Holden

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

- John Simpson

I don`t believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

- Peter Benchley

The fact they are blaming restaurants for creating obesity in this society is absurd, ... You`re not going to end obesity in Americans by filing lawsuits against the restaurant industry.

- Steven Anderson

I don`t know how (Green) is blaming me because I was on the bumper of the car in front of me and just hit him. Jeff was coming up. I don`t know if he was trying to get air on that or what and he touched the left-front of my car. He`s got to know that somebody else is there, too.

- Dale Jarrett

I don`t know how he`s blaming me. Jeff came up. He`s got to know that someone else is there, too.

- Dale Jarrett

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

- Wangari Maathai

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

- Herbert Hoover

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

- Amos Oz
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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

- Al Spalding

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.

- Allison Forsyth

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

- Alois Hadamczik

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim`s advocate`s statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it`s far too many.

- Amr Mussa

Anger and blaming others takes a lot of energy away from healing. One of the most powerful emotions that has to be expressed is forgiveness.

- Angela A. Bridges

He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me for the second Test defeat.

- Anna Drake

He was putting too much pressure on himself. Instead of just being the best Dave Bullock he could be, he was trying to do so much more. He was blaming himself when things didn`t go right. Whatever he was doing, he felt it wasn`t good enough.

- Anne Pollard

I think the saddest part of all of this is there is not one mention of any type of accountability from their political masters, ... They are in this mode of blaming it on the civil servants.

- Anwar Phillips

The radical right is so homophobic that they`re blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

- Dennis Miller

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

- Scott Adams

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.

- Larry Summers