“Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 143 of 169
“The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.”
“The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.”
“With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”
“We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.”
“Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder”
“The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is part of our nation's history and has redirected our country in many instances, from the feminist movement to the Civil Rights movement and beyond.”
“Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.”
“I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.”
“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .”
“That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.”
“I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives.”
“I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words... and it's gonna stay there.”
“A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.”
“If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.”
“I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.”
“I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.”
“I've always had this impulse to be destructive.”
“The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives”
“Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.”