“Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 88 of 169
“As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.”
“Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.”
“The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American”
“Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.”
“Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!”
“We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.”
“Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.”
“I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.”
“A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]”
“You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.”
“I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.”
“When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'”
“College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.”
“They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.”
“I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills.”
“You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”
“I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.”
“Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.”
“If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.”