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Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.
It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.
I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!
You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.
Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.
The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.
You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.
So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!
All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.
My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.
For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.
You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!
I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.
New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.