Famous Quotes: Past

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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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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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.
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
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The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
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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 think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
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I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
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Disarmament requires trust.
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You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
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