Jake Arrieta Quotes
As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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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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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.
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Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
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In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.
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You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.
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As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
