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I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.
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I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
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