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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don’t get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.

– Theresa May

What you don’t want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

– Tom Hicks

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

– Thor Heyerdahl

The show is called ‘Todrick,’ and the show follows my life and the friends that I’ve gathered over the past few years making YouTube videos. Every week, we’re taking a brand new concept – a brand new original song, brand new hair, makeup, choreography, and making a video come to life on our shoestring budget.

– Todrick Hall

I don’t think France is a racist country, I really don’t, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there’s a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

– Vincent Cassel

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

– Spiro T. Agnew

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

– Tyson Fury

I was looking for what was coming from a man’s soul and a man’s conviction. I didn’t care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

– Sam Phillips

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

– Vidya Balan

It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think?

– Winona Ryder

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

– Virat Kohli

All I can say is that I’m going to try to coach the way I’ve coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

– Steve Spurrier

In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

– Sarah Parcak

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it’s definitely a very eclectic group, is all I’ll say.

– Sophia Myles

I work out like a maniac, three times more than anything I did in the past. I am off carbs, salt, sweets, and live on a fish diet. And I promise I am not going to indulge in food again. See, when I was 49 years old, I was fine, but the moment I touched 50, I felt that something within me had changed drastically. My metabolic rate dropped.

– Sanjay Dutt

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

– Warren Zevon

Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It’s fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you’ve done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that’s how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.

– Sasha Roiz

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

– T. D. Jakes

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

– Tamara Ecclestone

If you have value as an artist it’s probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you’re going to have.

– Tony Kushner

My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I’ll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character’s past, fears, goals and ambitions.

– Tracie Peterson

I don’t harp on what I could change about the past, because I can’t go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

– Vanilla Ice

In the past, when venture-funded startups told their investors they’d found a profitable business model, the first thing VCs would do is to start looking for an ‘operating exec’ – usually an MBA who would act as the designated ‘adult’ and take over the transition from Search to Build.

– Steve Blank

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

– Timothy Garton Ash

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

– Theodor Adorno

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. ‘Superpower’ is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

– Vladimir Putin

Create your future from your future not your past.

– Werner Erhard

Because that’s just the way it is, and don’t sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can… not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

– Thierry Henry

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

– Zach McGowan

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

– Wilfrid Laurier

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