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Regretful Quotes — page 148 of 169
“Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.”
“Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.”
“No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.”
“I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'”
“I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.”
“I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.”
“I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.”
“I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.”
“The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.”
“What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.”
“Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.”
“Only the mistakes were mine.”
“Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.”
“I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.”
“Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!”
“I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.”
“Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”
“If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.”
“I am nothing and should be everything.”