“Every day people say you got to move on with your life. You have to move on. And you just can't.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 161 of 169
“I lost my way for a long time.”
“Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.”
“Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.”
“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.”
“I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.”
“I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.”
“A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.”
“In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.”
“Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.”
“Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.”
“ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.”
“The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.”
“I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.”
“Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.”
“Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.”
“It's not the '80s any more. We're not all riding around in limousines and snorting coke off of hookers' tits. We still have to keep working and touring. We're definitely still very much a working band. If we stopped doing this tomorrow, we'd have a little bit of cash to last us a couple of months, and then we'd have to go and get other jobs.”
“I can't understand how some bands are criticized for doing something different and other bands are rewarded for doing things different. At the end of the day, I throw my hands up in the air and say, "F**k it." I've come to accept that no matter what we do, there's going to be somebody out there on the Internet that says it's a piece of s**t and somebody who says they really like it. That's happened with every single album we've put out.”
“If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.”
“I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.”