William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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I don't believe in regret.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
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I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.
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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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My only merit lies in having painted directly in front of nature, seeking to render my impressions of the most fleeting effects, and I still very much regret having caused the naming of a group whose majority had nothing impressionist about it.
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Dream that the lips once breathlessMight quicken if they would;Say that the soul is deathless;Dream that the gods are good;Say March may wed September,And time divorce regret;But not that you remember,And not that I forget.
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Clavain felt little in the way of regret; more a sense of quiet relief that they were past the negotiating stage and into the infinitely more honest arena of actual battle.
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My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.
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If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
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BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
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You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.
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Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?
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Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
