- Enslave
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer, echoed through the neighborhood.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020