Regret Quotes - Page 16

• My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Real, Young Friends, Parent

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• I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

  Moby

  Gay, Trying, Convince

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

  Paul Allen

  Swim, Wish, Pacific

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

  Neige

  Wise, Here And There, Albums

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Taken, Responsibility, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm genuinely curious about people, and I'm always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.

  Alison Rosen

  People, Want, Facts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Daughter, Mother, Swim

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

  Jenny Slate

  Fire, Best Things, Happens

  "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.

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• I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Looks, Firsts, Pops

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

  Peter Orner

  Character, People, Joy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

  Michelle Singletary

  Decision, Made, Given

  "Color of Money Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 21, 2016.

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• When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fashion, Writing, Character

  Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we're all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.

  Lorin Stein

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets.

  Richard Masur

  Grateful, Years, Seven Months

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.

  Brené Brown

  Want, Showing Up, Miserable

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I was young I had this blonde haircut that was shaved on one side with a rat tail and tram lines in it, but I don't really regret that. It was really elaborate but I was 12 and it looked cool. It was like what people in Iceland do.

  Kemp Muhl

  Iceland, People, Blonde

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.

  Richard Madden

  Drama, School, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

  Billy Joel

  Years, May, No Regrets

  "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

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• At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

  Charles Busch

  Age, Fifteen, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.

  Brooke Waggoner

  Mistake, Growth, Deeper

  "BYT Interviews: Brooke Waggoner". Interview with Tam Sackman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 17, 2016.

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• One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Sex, Book

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Way, Purpose, Want

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

  Marianne Williamson

  Emotional, Toxins, Process

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Example

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• My big regret is that my brother and I didn't start doing what we did like, 10 years before. I feel like then we would have sold some records. We started pretty late - I was 27 when our first album came out.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Brother, Years, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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