- Hurt
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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
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing this 17 years but I can tell you I have more websites now than I have ever had devoted to me or my past career or my character. When I got this show, I think I had two fans out there that had created websites on my behalf.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020