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Past Quotes
"It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia."
36
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
34
"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."
Past,
32
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
Past,
29
"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
Past,
26
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
Past,
25
"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past."
24
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
21
"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
Past,
21
"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
17
"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
15
"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."
Past,
13
"Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings."
13
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
12
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
11
"I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets."
Past,
11
"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
11
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
Past,
11
"When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you."
Past,
11
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
10
"And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills."
10
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
10
"As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe."
9
"Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
Past,
9
"It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."
9
"Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do."
9
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