Past Quotes
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I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
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How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
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On Tuesday the freighter steamed through the Straits of Gibraltar and for five days plowed eastward through the Mediterranean, past islands and peninsulas rich in history, so that on Saturday night the steward advised Dr. Cullinane, 'If you wish an early sight of the Holy Land you must be up at dawn.'
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I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
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I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.
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A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.
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The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
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Clavain felt little in the way of regret; more a sense of quiet relief that they were past the negotiating stage and into the infinitely more honest arena of actual battle.
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Grant us more powers, not less; grant us more democracy, not less; grant us the tools to move forward because, I can assure you, Puerto Rico will move forward. We did it in the past; we will do it again.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.
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In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally - in short, with reason.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
