Past Quotes
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.
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The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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The past is what the present is doing now.
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Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?
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She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
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The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
