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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

– John Maynard Keynes

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

– Jeff Gordon

I feel like I’m able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

– Big Sean

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

– Al Gore

I never seem to get past – I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

– Alex Graves

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

– Alex Haley

I don’t understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven’t even established a career yet. It’s hard to see past that. I’m not so sure that’s smart in the long run.

– Allison Williams

I’d describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can’t go past without going into. I just can’t resist lovely stationery.

– Joanna Lumley

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

– Candace Bushnell

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

– Alberto Giacometti

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

– Jay Parini

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night’s ‘Main Event.’ That’s how I started watching SNL. On accident.

– Andy Samberg

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

– James Mattis

So with truth – there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there’s never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

– A. B. Yehoshua

In the past I’ve made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can’t really hate them. You can discard them, but you can’t really hate them.

– Ang Lee

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

– Allison Tolman

I don’t live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don’t think anyone would like it.

– Juicy J

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

– Clint Eastwood

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

– Jonathan Zittrain

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

– Jonathan Sacks

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one’s birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one’s own.

– J. M. Coetzee

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That’s what I’m most proud of. I can’t go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I’ve done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I’m certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

– Jimmy Connors

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

– Confucius

In the past, there hasn’t been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It’s information that’s really valuable, and it’s information that people want to share.

– Adam D’Angelo

I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

– Alfred Enoch

I’m bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn’t torment or grieve me.

– Jhumpa Lahiri

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

– Bob Schieffer

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

– Abigail Washburn

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That’s how much the bank meant to my father.

– Alexi Giannoulias

I think once you’re past 30 you shouldn’t wear a lot of glitter.

– Chloe Sevigny

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