Alexandra Petri Quotes

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

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• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Party
  • Myself

• 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

• In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Learning
  • Woman
  • Regret

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• 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've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

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

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Regret

• 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.

  

  Maluma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• 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

• I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• 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

• The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Past
  • Present

• There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Real
  • Justice
  • Regret

• Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Men
  • Done
  • Age

• White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.

  

  Bryant Gumbel
  • People

• The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Alone

• Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.

  

  Gerald M. Loeb
  • Capital
  • Investing
  • Inflation

• I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Time
  • Dog

• 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