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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Past Quotes

I don’t think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

– Tom Hiddleston

One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind… who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.

– Steven Stucky

But most of what I’ve learned about acting – and a lot of what I’ve learned about life in the past seven years – was taught to me by Robert Altman.

– Shelley Duvall

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

– Steve Erickson

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world’s bulwark of liberty.

– Steve Buyer

I’ve never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I’m not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I’d like to do.

– Tim Finchem

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

– Tony Robbins

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

– Travis Bradberry

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don’t believe in them in the traditional sense.

– Tabitha King

At the beginning of ‘Will and Grace’, I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we’ve seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

– Sean Hayes

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

– Zarin Mehta

I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it’s probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these things we believe are true, that are just not true about what an audience wants.

– Soledad O’Brien

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

– Susan Rice

My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.

– Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.

– Toussaint Louverture

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

– Steve Earle

There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup, you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year.

– Steve Blank

People didn’t just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn’t hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit’s incomplete.

– Susanna Kearsley

When I produce a movie – and I’ve produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold – yes, I’m frustrated when the union says you can’t do this, you can’t work past that hour, you’ve got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they’re right. What they do is for everyone’s benefit.

– Warren Beatty

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