Past Quotes
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It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.
Amy Poehler
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My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.
Neve Campbell
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That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
Drew Chadwick Emblem3
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As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
Jake Arrieta
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Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.
Ai Weiwei
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
Ben Affleck
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West
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I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.
Barack Obama
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The past is a sadly inadequate word for what we've been through
Campbell McGrath
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
Octavio Paz
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All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.
D. H. Lawrence
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
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I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.
Scott Hamilton
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We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
T. F. Tout
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
Freeman Dyson
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I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.
Jennifer Capriati
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Anthony Lewis
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Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
Alex Berenson
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Anna Freud
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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
Columba Bush
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If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
Tony Kushner
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala
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When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.
Yasmin Mogahed