Famous Quotes: Past

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
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I'm very happy in France making movies.
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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
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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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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
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I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.
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