Past Quotes
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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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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
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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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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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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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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 challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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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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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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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 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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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.
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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
