“Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 138 of 169
“Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
“Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.”
“Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.”
“I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.”
“Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.”
“The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.”
“When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.”
“If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.”
“The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.”
“There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.”
“I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.”
“A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.”
“the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.”
“I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.”
“Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.”
“We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.”
“It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.”
“Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit. And I think it's really important, therefore, that some of the revolts that are undergoing right now, you know, whether it's ad blockers or other things, are people trying to set some lines so that we say, you know, this far but no further. And this is where it ends.”