You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
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Related I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w... SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for... ROBERT M. PIRSIG The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 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They're diffe... CASEY AFFLECK It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forwa... DAVID GILL Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you... RICK RUBIN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I... ACE FREHLEY When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was... CYNTHIA ERIVO But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be di... DAVID AXELROD Hindsight being 20/20, I probably wouldn't have done it. MARK LANEVE Alas, I think I am becoming a god. 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SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing'... FRED DURST I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really... BARBARA BILLINGSLEY 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,... LEWIS CARROLL Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have ... NICKI MINAJ We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem. VINCE MCMAHON The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a pri... 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BENNY GREEN When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn... DR. DRE There's no reason we shouldn't have 15 or 20 Johnny Rockets in Dubai. DANIEL SNYDER Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn... MATTEO RENZI All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's calle... MICHELE BACHMANN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't... EVAN SPIEGEL It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&... JOEL MADDEN With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn'... KEN FOLLETT We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don... DONALD TRUMP One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But ... LES PAUL My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled f... TORY LANEZ I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves wh... BILLY CAMPBELL When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can&... ERTHARIN COUSIN I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 peo... DAVID BAKER No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha... TASHA SMITH I wouldn't go back and change anything. CHARLIE SIMPSON You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. YOGI BERRA You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. YOGI BERRA We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. OLIN MILLER We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. RONALD REAGAN I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I w... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fun... TERRY FOX You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b... VAN JONES We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access ... JEANETTE WINTERSON With 20/20 hindsight I think we just treated it too lightly. GEORGE PETEROS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I ... CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change the... STANLEY TUCCI You're lucky you had that when you were 20. 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