Pierre Boulez Quotes
I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.
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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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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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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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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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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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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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In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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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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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.
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All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
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When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.
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I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
