Lukas Foss Quotes
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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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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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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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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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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'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'm really obsessed with the past.
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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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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.
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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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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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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 unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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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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I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.
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You know, I had no trouble with the girls.
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I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
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Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
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Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
