David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
That I wasn't Indiana Jones.
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Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
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Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
That money doesn’t buy happiness.
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Choose your friends wisely.
Losing my family.
To my daughters and my partner, Tracey, for what I put them through with my transition.
The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.
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