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I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Philip Gould
Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour
When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.
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Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, interview at Gould's home in London, 20 September 2011
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Noah Harari
Israeli historian and philosopher
I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
Julian Lloyd Webber
British cellist and conductor
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
Paterson Joseph
British actor and author
I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
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I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
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