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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.
No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.
Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.
I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.
As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Just look at the past. Hillary Clinton is done nothing. She's been there for 35 years. She's done nothing.
From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.
I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.
You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.