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The Great Gatsby
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Past Quotes

Many people repeat the past. I’m not interested. I prefer evolution.

– Issey Miyake

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren’t unusual. Now it’s no use trying to export without having something that’s unusual and better.

– James Dyson

Anything past 90 days constitutes ‘severe,’ but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported.

– Jean Chatzky

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

– Jerry Saltz

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

– Jack Dempsey

‘Johnny’ was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

– Johnny Vegas

There’s virtually nothing made up in ‘The Immigrant.’ So much of the film came from somewhere in my family’s past. All the details are from my own family.

– James Gray

In the past I’ve had a bad injury, and then struggled when I’ve got back because I’ve been unfit.

– Jamie Redknapp

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

– John Cusack

After my parents passed away – in 2000 and 2003 – I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

– Joyce Carol Oates

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

– Iain Duncan Smith

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

– John Thorn

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape.

– Jack Henry Abbott

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

– Isaiah Berlin

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can’t Washington?

– J. C. Watts

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

– James Mattis

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we’ve moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

– Jeffrey Kluger

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

– Joe Eszterhas

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

– Jochen Zeitz

I try not to dwell on the past. I’m not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

– John Cusack

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

– Jerry Saltz

When it’s the same team that’s created magic at the box office in the past, you know you are in safe hands.

– Jacqueline Fernandez

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We’re way past autographs. We’re into being stalked and followed.

– Jennifer Lawrence

Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

– James Comey

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

– Jane Byrne

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

– John Jay Chapman

In the past, like for the last Rilo Kiley record, ‘Under the Blacklight,’ I wore exclusively hot pants because the themes in that record were the underbelly of Los Angeles.

– Jenny Lewis

Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn’t tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

– James Surowiecki

I think there’s something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn’t want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

– Junot Diaz

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

– Jack Horner

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