“I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter by Shari VanderWerf on October 19, 2010.
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Shari VanderWerf
@shariv67
I never make the same mistake twice.
I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure.
3:38 PM - 19 Oct 2010
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Jutt in Jeans
@Jutt_in_Jeans
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure
5:21 PM - 19 Oct 2010
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P.Redd
@PrinceRedd
I never make the same mistake twice I make it 5 or 6 times just to be sure
5:48 PM - 19 Oct 2010
Funny Status
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or…
August 9, 2012 Life Status Updates
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure.
Google Books
No Ice, No Slice
By Hugo Tang
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2013
Pg. 276:
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it four or five times just to be sure.
11 January 2013, The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia), “Mouthing Off” by Marty Smith, pg. 24:
JUST A THOUGHT
Never make the same mistake twice. Make it five or six times, just to be sure.
Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
I never make the same mistake twice I make it five or six times just to be sure.
2:03 PM - 12 Apr 2013
Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
I never make the same mistake twice…I make it five or six times, just to be sure.
1:20 PM - 1 Oct 2013
Google Books
Facebook Quotes and Status Updates, Volume 1
By Silver S.
Newark, DE: Speedy Publishing LLC
2014
Pg. ?:
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure.
Google Books
Chuckle, Giggle, Snort!:
Quips Collected By Karen Money Williams
By Karen Money Williams
Lulu Press (Lulu.com)
2014
Pg. ?:
I never make the same mistake twice. I like to make it five or six times, just to be sure.
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Grammarly with Alessandra Marafetti and 26 others.
March 6, 2015 ·
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure.
#FunnyFriday
MMA Junkie
Dan Hooker doesn’t make the same mistake twice: ‘I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure’
By: Fernanda Prates and John Morgan | June 9, 2017 9:45 am
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – It took learning things the (very) hard way for Dan Hooker to make a change.
(...)
“I saw a quote the other day, and it says ‘I never make the same mistake twice – I make it five or six times, just to be sure,’” Hooker told MMAjunkie ahead of the FS1-televised main card scrap at Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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