Past Quotes
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
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The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits.
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
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Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
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The past is only the future with the lights on
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The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
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The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
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When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
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I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
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If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
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Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
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My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
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You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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We read the future by the past.
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Going back to the past is not productive.
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The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
