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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
- Eat
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020