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Past Quotes
"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."
39
"Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical."
Past,
39
"The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present."
38
"Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?"
Past,
38
"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."
38
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past,
37
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility."
37
"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
37
"Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly."
37
"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."
37
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
37
"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."
36
"Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on."
36
"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
36
"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."
35
"I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past."
35
"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it."
35
"Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from."
Past,
35
"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
Past,
35
"I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past."
34
"You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all."
34
"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."
33
"Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible."
Past,
33
"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."
32
"Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present."
32
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
Past,
32
"I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training."
32
"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."
32
"I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present."
31
"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."
30
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
30
"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
29
"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
29
"In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it."
Past,
28
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