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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."

"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable."

"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."

"People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people."

"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."

"The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table."
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