Past Quotes
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Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
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Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale.
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America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
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I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
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I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
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In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
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Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
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I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.
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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
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I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
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Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
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You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
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I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.
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Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
