Present Quotes
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I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great.
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No eye saw him, while with loving pride Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied. Must he in conscious trance, dumb, helpless lie While all that ardent kindred passed him by? His flesh cried out to live with living men, And join that soul which to the inward ken Of all the hymning train was present there.
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If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.
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I guess I’ll still be grappling with my endless number of worries. But since I have to live in the present, I hope I can concentrate more on my todays — not just on my acting, but on my life. I hope I can become more assertive and expressive.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
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In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
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One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
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The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.
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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
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That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.
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Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
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Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.
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The present is the only thing that has no end.
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
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When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
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The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.
