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Past Quotes

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

– James Broughton

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

– John Cage

Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that’s irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

– Jerry Saltz

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

– Jon Meacham

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

– John Updike

In the past, when we’ve tried gene therapy, we haven’t had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.

– Jennifer Doudna

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.

– Jet Li

I’ve never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

– Joel Robuchon

It’s OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don’t let it fester; don’t hold a grudge. If you do, that’s when it will get worse and worse.

– Ike Barinholtz

The Green Arrow stuff that I’ve responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I’ve liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.

– Jeff Lemire

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I’m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

– Jared Diamond

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

– James Nesbitt

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

– Ibrahim Babangida

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

– Jean de la Bruyere

There have been many gay knights in the past – like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

– Ian Mckellen

I learned from my past.

– Jason Calacanis

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

– James Madison

What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It’s imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders – the recidivists and the career criminals – be put away and kept away.

– Janet Reno

There’s such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on the run-up to the O2 concert, the only music that we played was music of Led Zeppelin – the past catalog stuff; that’s what we played on the way towards shaping up the set list for that. But we played really, really well.

– Jimmy Page

I’m not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

– Jennifer Aniston

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

– Jane Austen

It is scary to write – period – for me, but once you get past the idea that it’s scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself – to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

– Jason Robert Brown

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can’t tell you specifically what they’ve been in the recent months. In the past they’ve been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they’re more dreams of his presence.

– Judy Collins

The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

– Joseph Brodsky

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

– Jose Andres

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.

– James Thurber

In the past, Google has used teams of humans to ‘read’ its street address images – in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically – and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.

– John Battelle

I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with Don Coryell, who was a big part of my past, great coach. A lot of people say he was one of the greatest coaches ever. He was very good in high school, college and pro. Another guy on that staff was named John Madden.

– Joe Gibbs

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

– Herb Caen

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

– James Buchan

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