Past Quotes
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The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
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With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it.
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Does the hon. Lady agree that private medicine is a drain on the NHS and takes resources away from those who cannot afford to buy their way past the hospital queues? Does she further agree that it would be logical to remove pay beds and privatised services from NHS hospitals and bring back direct labour? Would that be alliance policy?
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The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
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Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
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Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.
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There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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You can't continue to reflect on the past.
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It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
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We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.
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I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
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I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.
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I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
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I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.
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Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.
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Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.
