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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
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.
- Nov 07, 2020
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.
- Nov 07, 2020
My past is a bit checkered.
- Effective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fans don't care what's in your private life, what happened in your past, where you come from. If you don't perform, they judge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020