Harold Pinter Quotes

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• 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.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
  • Important
  • Live
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Now

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Live
  • Remember

• There is no place for fear. Stay informed, but also be smart enough to decipher what is noise and what is real. Always remembering that love can cast out all hate. I have made a commitment to teach my son love, self-respect, the way of the world and boundaries.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Real
  • Remember

• If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Up
  • Model

• As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • Imagination

• The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Yourself