Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
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Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
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Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
