Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

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• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• 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.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Me
  • Regret
  • More

• I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Regret

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• He left no time to regret,Kept his dick wet,With his same old safe bet.Me & my head high,And my tears dry,Get on without my guy.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Time
  • High
  • Guy

• Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Women
  • Past
  • Regret

• My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Up
  • Regret

• It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Dying
  • Regret

• I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Life
  • Regret

• I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn't know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Business
  • Regret

• I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

  

  Psy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

  

  Mathias Rust
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Wall

• My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • She
  • Wife
  • Regret

• We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

  

  Fulton Oursler
  • Fear
  • Regret

• We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Sea
  • Hard
  • England

• Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Color

• I understood that this is not personal. I came in and I stood for something. For some people, I stood for change they didn’t want. It wasn’t really about me, it was just about the new directions for the academy, the new directions for our world, that are threatening to some people.

  

  Dawn Hudson
  • Change
  • Directions
  • Academy

• We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

  

  Hayden Fry
  • Looks
  • Changed
  • Fields

• True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Heart
  • True
  • Faith

• I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

  

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