- Kite
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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
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to move on from the laurels of the past. I can't let success go to my head.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past.
- Greatest Weapon
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
- Karma
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
Past, present, and future is where I'm at.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020