- Know
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
- Production
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to make more money, you'll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020