- 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
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having pop sensibilities from my past and also being a lead blues and sort of rock guitarist allowed me to bring that kind of beachy rock groove.
- Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think typically you'd start in a supporting role or an ensemble role, or maybe even an off-Broadway role. So to come into a lead role on Broadway, especially taking over a role that has been played by two phenomenal actors in the past, that is some large shoes to fill.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just try to live in moment as much as you can each pitch, not worry about what happened after the past has happened.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home cooks are finding inspiration in the past, digging up centuries-old recipes more familiar to the likes of Thomas Jefferson than Thomas Keller.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020