Past Quotes
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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.
Josh Gad
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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
William Glasser
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Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.
Daisaku Ikeda
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
Conn Iggulden
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Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.
George Watsky
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'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.
Johnny Vegas
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With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
Louise Leakey
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How long did it take for a past to die?
Richard Matheson
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There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
William Bernbach
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For me, everything happens for a reason. I'm thankful that it happened because it saved me from the past, and now I can move forward and meet the person that was destined to be with me."
Nikki Gil
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Our past has gone into history.
William McKinley
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
Jesmyn Ward
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The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future.
Ayi Kwei Armah
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You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.
William Shatner
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I don't think about stardom anymore. I'm way past that phase.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
Cynthia Weil
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.
Adam Rippon
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It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.
Lady Gaga
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I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
Cindy Margolis
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I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.
Nicholas Sparks
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Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
Courteney Cox
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I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.
Cesar Pelli