“I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 52 of 169
“Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.”
“Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.”
“Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.”
“She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.”
“You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience”
“Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.”
“Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.”
“Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?”
“All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.”
“There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.”
“No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.”
“If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.”
“Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.”
“This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!”
“Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.”
“I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.”
“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
“Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.”