F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Walter Kirn
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
Zayn Malik One Direction
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Natalie Massenet
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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.
Tallulah Bankhead
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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.
Laura Esquivel
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
Fisher Stevens
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
Pamela Sargent
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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.
F. Sionil Jose
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
Paloma Faith
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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
Wale
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
Victor Davis Hanson
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
Eddie Campbell
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power;But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
John Dryden
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Mo: Uh... sorry. I was just wondering why you're... you know... using that if normally you just use crutches.Thea: Well, the chair is so much more dramatic, don't you think? I use it when I want people to feel extra sorry for me.
Alison Bechdel
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
Tasha Smith
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I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
Donovan Bailey
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Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald