“Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life, on twenty-twenty hindsight I would say just take the good with the bad.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 162 of 169
“Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.”
“I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.”
“Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.”
“Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.”
“All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?”
“The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.”
“sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.”
“Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?”
“My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.”
“Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?”
“You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.”
“But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?”
“It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.”
“Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?”
“We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.”
“I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.”
“There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.”
“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.”
“That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.”