Past Quotes

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

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

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

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

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.