- Imagination
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.
- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
- Freedom From
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it's definitely an escapist form of entertainment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020