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Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
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The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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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.
Noah Harari
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I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan human rights advocate
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
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Frightening, exhilarating and all-consuming.
I’m president of my neighbourhood association. At my first meeting there was a discussion about developments the association should oppose. I said: “Nothing could be as bad as that horrible new house next to the church.” “I designed that,” the chairman replied. I shut up.
When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.
A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.
Twice I should have died in car accidents when both my cars were written off. I was completely unhurt; the cello was completely unhurt, too. A complete miracle.
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