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That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Noah Harari
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I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
Steve Pemberton
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Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
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Premature demise.
That I’m still here.
The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.
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