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After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

— Martha Reeves

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.

— John Foster Dulles

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

— Melissa Marr

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

— Jason Isbell

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

— Moby

I haven't always made the right decisions.

— George Steinbrenner

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

— Gary Oldman

My life is littered with bad decisions.

— Will Forte

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

— Steve Wozniak

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

— Corey Feldman