- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Past Quotes
Looking back to understand what comes next.
This collection of past quotes includes a mid-20th-century physicist's assessment of the atomic-age power balance between Europe and the Anglo-Saxon powers, alongside a separate scientific note on how measurement affects what can be known about earlier moments. Both sit alongside a simpler idea: building your future apart from your past. Related themes appear in our Truth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely interested in acting. I've done it in my past. I know I can do it, let's put it that way. And it's so much fun.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I had this open-door policy where everyone was invited. And that was awesome, but you end up releasing songs that you don't really like and justifying it in your head.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be cool to let people know that it doesn't matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020