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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.
- Elections
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elections are about the future and not about the past.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that I love about now?' I couldn't find them, so I started writing.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask, 'What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?'
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020