Past Quotes
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By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
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When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
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The past is what the present is doing now.
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
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Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.
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She'd fallen into the best part of her past.
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The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
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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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Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make a significant break with the past. And Hillary Clinton is a person - whether you like it or not - of extraordinary experience. I don't know if we ever had a presidential candidate with that level of political experience. There's no learning curve for her. And that, in some periods, would be a huge plus. In the end, I think it will be a significant plus for her now.
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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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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
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The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
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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.
