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• Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.

  Stuart Rose

  Husband, Regret, Best Husband

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• I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Regret, Men, Black

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• I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

  PSY

  Song, Regret, People

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• I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Outcomes, Able

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• This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

  John F. Kerry

  Regret, America, Errors

  "Would a Kerry win increase risk of terror?". Debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry at the University of Miami, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2004.

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• Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Regret, Opportunity, Sin

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• But I regret not having liked history.

  Eva Herzigova

  Regret

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• I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Regret, War, Europe

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• I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Regret, Years, Training

  "Charlotte Rampling (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• I regret that I was never an athlete. I regret there isn't time in life. I regret that so many of my friends have died. I regret that I was not brave at certain times in my life. I regret that I'm not beautiful. I regret that my conversation is largely with myself. I'm not part of the conversation of the world.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Regret, Athlete

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• I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words... and it's gonna stay there.

  Roy Harper

  Regret, Inspiration, Should Have

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• Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Teacher, Regret

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace

  Philip Bailey

  Mother, Determination, Memories

  FaceBook post by Philip Bailey from Dec 07, 2013

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• I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Regret, Artist, Given

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work”, p.26, Da Capo Press

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• I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

  James Monroe

  Regret, World, Should

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• There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

  Helen Keller

  Bible, Regret, Thinking

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

  Winslow Homer

  Regret, Description

  On being asked about the meaning of a painting by a dealer. Quoted by Andrea Bennett in the NewYork Times Book Review, 15 Sep 1991.

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

  Erik Naggum

  Regret, Littles, Dangerous

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• I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of.

  Jim Steranko

  Regret, Book, Opportunity

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• I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Regret, America, Hollywood

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• I regret my disbelief in God.

  Peter Medawar

  Regret, Atheism, Disbelief

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.209, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Regret, Regret Nothing, Concerned

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

  Bahman Ghobadi

  Regret, Historical, Film

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• I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Regret, Arrogance, Inexperience

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

  Joan Larkin

  Regret, Writing, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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