Past Quotes
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All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
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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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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 think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
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Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
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At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.
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The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.
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I don't really look into the past too much.
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The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
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I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.
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There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.
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My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.
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What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.
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I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.
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I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
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I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.
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In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
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I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
