Past Quotes
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Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
Bob Harper
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I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
Taylor Swift
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After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
Maajid Nawaz
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
Ian Rankin
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The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
Charles Frazier
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In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
Jan Koum
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American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Religion will always remain a powerful force in the history of our species. To me, the meaning of progress in religion is simply this, that as we move from the past to the future the good works inspired by religion should more and more prevail over the evil.
Freeman Dyson
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
Edith Pearlman
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Bette Davis
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I'm truly deeply sorry for any hurt and disappointment this has caused for our fans, and I really hope that we clearly have stated that Ace of Base never shared any of these opinions and strongly oppose all extremist opinions on both the right and left wing. My past is my own, and only I can own up to it.
Ulf Gunnar Ekberg Ace of Base
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
Vanessa Paradis
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True
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We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
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The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
Isaac Asimov
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Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.
William Irwin Thompson
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The industry has not grown much during the past three or four years. It is practically stabilized at the present 1927. What has taken place is a shift from one manufacturer to another.
Alfred P. Sloan
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To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.
Dino De Laurentiis
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I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
Alan Arkin
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The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve
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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
James Martineau
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I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
Ashwin Sanghi
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It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
Joe Kaeser