Past Quotes
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We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
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If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
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I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.
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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
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If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
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The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.
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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
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I don't care about the past.
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I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.
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I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.
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As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.
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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
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I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
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I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.
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In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
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Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.
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Composers are always going back to the past.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.
