- Dawn
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
- Creative Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, action to combat climate change was viewed largely as running counter to economic growth, with 'going green' implying a sacrifice of prosperity for the sake of the environment. Today, we know better.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognize that it often serves competitors best to talk past each other - especially when you are trying to claim the fleeting attentions of voters on a debate stage or on social media. But think how much more clarity we could get if the people who wanted to be president clearly explained why he or she is the better choice.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low for the past few days. All of us are mad because Glenn was picked.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I find myself whining, and I'm like, 'God, it's wet,' there will always be one guy who never got into the heat tent, who didn't get past the coffee, and he's still there, and this guy is smiling. You know, I gotta get over myself.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
- Entranced
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020