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I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
British journalist
I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
Judy Murray
Scottish tennis coach
When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
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.
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Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
Getting a house. I didn’t think that was a possibility for me. I’ve been able to do amazing things – Netflix, tours, winning a Bafta – but having something you own is hard, so that’s really up there.
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
Not investing in bitcoin.
I always relate love to happiness.
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