"Every career thing I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong"
About this Quote
The phrasing matters. “Career thing” is almost comically casual, a deliberately unglamorous term for what is, in her case, a global brand. That choice undercuts the mythology that each move is hyper-calculated. Then she goes further: “sometimes my decisions are wrong.” Not misunderstood, not “misrepresented” - wrong. In pop culture, that’s radical candor, because admissions of error usually arrive wrapped in PR language about growth and learning. Cyrus keeps it blunt, which signals a controlled vulnerability: she’s owning the fallibility without surrendering authorship of her story.
The subtext is about the Miley Cyrus problem: she’s been asked, since adolescence, to be both icon and cautionary tale, often in the same week. Her most scrutinized pivots - Disney to provocation, reinventions that critics labeled “too much” or “not serious” - trained the audience to treat her choices like public referendums. This quote resets the terms. It’s less an apology than a boundary: you can watch, you can judge, but you don’t get to demand perfection as the admission price.
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| Topic | Career |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cyrus, Miley. (2026, February 16). Every career thing I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-career-thing-i-do-cant-be-perfect-and-172558/
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Cyrus, Miley. "Every career thing I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-career-thing-i-do-cant-be-perfect-and-172558/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Every career thing I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-career-thing-i-do-cant-be-perfect-and-172558/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

