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Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.
I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."
Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.
I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.
You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?
The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output
We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.
In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as everybody heads for safety.
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.
Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.
I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.
I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.