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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Past Quotes

I don’t live in the past.

– Joe Montana

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

– Jose Andres

I’ve done so many interviews that I’ve gotten past the ego and the personality.

– John Travolta

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there’s Peter Dinklage.

– Ian Beattie

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

– Jimmy Carter

Calling a young artist ‘great’ these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

– Jerry Saltz

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

– Ivica Dacic

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

– James Comey

Well, once you’ve resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you’re past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I’ll do it, you know.

– Jarvis Cocker

We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings… Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

– John Updike

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

– James Gleick

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don’t deny the past, but it’s a page to turn.

– Juliette Binoche

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

– Joel A. Barker

In order to handle rejection, we have to reflect on the past, analyze/study it. Next, just like a computer, we have to reboot. Next, get it out of our system by rejecting every aspect of it.

– John Rampton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

– John Milton

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

– John Delaney

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it’s far enough in the past, that’s when you think, ‘Now I have to write something new.’

– Jarvis Cocker

I think only now am I at the age where I’ve forgiven the past enough to say, ‘You know what? Slavery was there. Let’s talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.

– James McBride

In the past, kids didn’t tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, ‘Get out of our house.’ There’s a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

– Ian Mckellen

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

– Ibrahim Babangida

Given Mr. Obama’s lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

– Jim Talent

I’m interested in Scotland now and then, how it’s changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

– Ian Rankin

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

– J. Michael Straczynski

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

– Iain Duncan Smith

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

– Johan Huizinga

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That’s an amusing relic of our past.

– John Hodgman

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

– Joel A. Barker

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

– Joel A. Barker

Most film productions, when they’re based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.

– Jeff Nichols

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

– Alan Watts

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