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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.
- Business People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I'm not trying to match anything that's been done in the past.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn't that be entertaining?
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Federal support for Morristown National Historic Park and the inclusion of additional lands present a unique opportunity for our government to express its commitment to preserving our past. Failing to do so may allow these historically important lands to go unprotected.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020