- Enough
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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
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there are ways of cutting past some of the ideological logjams in Washington when it comes to issues of American economic competitiveness and a pro-growth agenda.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried to do in 'The Missing Picture' was to reconstruct our identity, to bring it back to the people through cinema.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ain't gonna know about me by talking about the past. Haters care about that. My fans, they care about where I'm going.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
- Forgetting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020