Past Quotes
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Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can’t hurt anyone.
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Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
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Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on wood.' My snowboard's wood, so in case I jinxed myself sometime in the past, I just knock on my board. It just makes me feel a lot more comfortable.
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It's quite unbelievable that Charlie Crist is getting away with this reinvention of himself - this rewriting of history for blatantly political purposes. Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don't put that past him either.
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The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.
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I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.
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If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
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If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.
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The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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What distinct meaning can attach to saying that an idea in the past in any way affects an idea in the future, from which it is completely detached?
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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
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The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.
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Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
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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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I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.
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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.
