Past Quotes
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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
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When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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I have a sordid past.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
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I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
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My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
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Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
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I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.
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Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
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People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.
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This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.
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I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.
