- Life
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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
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.
- Prevent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the association with rock is one of force and anger and aggression. And definitely, in the past, I've made songs that attack like that. But what I usually try to appeal to is peoples' everyday feelings, the things that they're going through as they deal with the system on a one-to-one level.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first overseas trips with WWE was to France. I walked out of our hotel, and I see a little kid walking toward me with his mom. He gets a couple of steps past me and he stops in his tracks. I see his mom do a little bit of a double-take, then he runs over and just grabs on and starts hugging my leg as hard as he can, then he starts crying.
- Dark Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a dark side as far as there is, like, murder in my past, but yeah, I think I'm a pretty nice, easygoing guy.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
- Computer-Generated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020