"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."

-- Julie Christie

#Regret Quotes #Film Quotes #Turned Down Quotes

“I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.”
“I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.”
“Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation is dangerous, let there be no mistake about that-but the modern world abounds in dangerous substances and situations too numerous to mention. ... Consider radiation as something to be treated with respect, avoided when practicable, and accepted when inevitable.”
“I think 2015 will see a year where Europe outperforms the U.S. massively.”
“I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.”
“And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if youâ€™re caught stealing?' No, they donâ€™t do that, Henry said uncertainly. Why not? Itâ€™s pretty silly not to, isnâ€™t it?' Blue said.”
“You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.”
“It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Versibus Explicatæ, VII. 4, 1922.

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