Alan Shepard Quotes
We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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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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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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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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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands 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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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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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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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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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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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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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Final Ruin fiercely drivesHer plowshare o'er creation.
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I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.
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If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm not the most beautiful model in the industry, but I am for sure one of the most 'fashion' creatures you can find!
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On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
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We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.
