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• I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.

  Michael Caine

  Optimistic, Each Day, Lasts

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Needs, Actors, Done

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later, if you don't take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.

  Nina Dobrev

  Inspiration, Character, Thinking

  "The Final Girls" Star Nina Dobrev Talks the Surprising Horror Film, "Vampire Diaries", and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.

  Benjamin Percy

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

  Tao Lin

  Way, Next, Know How

  "Tao Lin" by David Shapiro Jr, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2013.

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• That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

  Amy Adams

  Philosophy, Trying, Said

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

  Nick Frost

  Done, Down And, Turned Down

  "Nick Frost Talks UNFINISHED BUSINESS, TINTIN 2, THE HUNTSMAN, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 11, 2015.

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• I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

  Keith Murray

  Stupid, Thinking, University Degrees

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• I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Want, Sitting

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Leader, Challenges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Technology, Thinking, Careful

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.

  David McCullough

  Latin, People, Greek

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Lasts, Born

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Wife, One Man

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• We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

  Ken Jennings

  Patriotic, Robots, Doe

  "Jennings in 'Jeopardy' with fans after Web post". www.today.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

  Frank Hall

  Gratitude, Past, Faces

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• I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Men

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• What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

  Klaus Barbie

  Would Be, Nazi, Born

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• Fortunately, most of my friends in comedy that smoke pot are almost as open about it as I am, and in some cases more so. But most that appear, it's more about friendship with me than making some statement about pot. I'm sure those of my friends who are onscreen smoking might have a little regret, but there's not too much of it.

  Doug Benson

  Smoking, Littles, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mother, Powerful, Father

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.

  Dominic Cooper

  Believe, Intuition, Kind

  "Exclusive interview: Dominic Cooper talks "Reasonable Doubt"". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 16th, 2017.

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• As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do.

  Arthur Chu

  Believe, Internet, I've Changed

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

  Wendell Berry

  Fall, Bird, Joyful

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.68, Counterpoint Press

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Senior, Dirty, Reading

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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• It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

  William Faulkner

  Habit, Idle, Acquire

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.79, Modern Library

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