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Past Quotes
"The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present."
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"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."
16
"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."
16
"Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California."
15
"Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
Past,
15
"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."
15
"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team."
15
"President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record."
15
"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
15
"Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made."
14
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
14
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
Past,
14
"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"
14
"The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years."
14
"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."
14
"We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service."
14
"Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?"
Past,
13
"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
Past,
13
"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."
13
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
13
"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."
12
"As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor."
12
"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."
12
"In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record."
12
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility."
12
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
Past,
12
"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past."
12
"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
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