- Purpose
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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
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.
- Dear Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's the same team that's created magic at the box office in the past, you know you are in safe hands.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Profile in Courage Award recognizes elected officials who choose to do what is right, not what is easy, so that we might learn from their example. Each time we give the award, we bear witness to the past for the sake of the future.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.
- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
- Genetic Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020