If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Cybill Shepherd said elsewhere, not written here
I would not toy with people's affections as much.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

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Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
I wish I sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued then and I - I would have been re-elected, but that may have - and that may have interfered with the foundation of the Carter Center. And if I had to choose between four more years and the Carter Center, I think I would choose the Carter Center.
Recorded News conference at the Carter Center, Atlanta, as transcribed by CNN, 20 August 2015 source ↗
Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer
I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗
Samuel West British actor, theatre director, and narrator
I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

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