Famous Quotes: Past

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
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Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
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We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
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Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
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Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
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I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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