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

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

• 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• Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.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...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Regret

• 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

• I deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologise for not having weighed them more carefully … I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • Women
  • 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

• One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • 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 had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • High
  • Space
  • Hand

• When I tell you it's an Under Armour T-shirt, your question should be, 'What's it do?'

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Question

• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Character
  • Rights
  • Virtues

• 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

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

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Regret
  • Chest