Past Quotes
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Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.
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My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
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Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.
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You can't think about the past anymore.
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The past doesn't buy you much.
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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
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How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.
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If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
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The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
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The further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.
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Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, knowledge of the things which may come to pass.
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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
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Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.
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A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
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I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go to British Columbia. Any Adam Sandler film is fun to work on because it is a reunion of the boys club of guys that have worked together in the past.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
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Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
