“Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 123 of 169
“My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it.”
“Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.”
“We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.”
“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'”
“You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.”
“Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.”
“What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.”
“Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.”
“The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.”
“Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.”
“Whichever you do, you will repent it.”
“I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.”
“People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.”
“The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.”
“I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.”
“The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.”
“Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.”
“The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.”
“The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.”