Past Quotes
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Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.
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Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
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Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
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I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
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My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.
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Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.
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I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.
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The future has a lot to do with the past.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
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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.
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Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.
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I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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Every White House Correspondents' Dinner for the past three years, I have broken my dress and can't even zip it, so we have to leave - that's why I've missed every carpet appearance. One time, we had to go into Virginia to find me a new dress.
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Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.
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Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
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There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
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The past does not equal the future.
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The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
