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• I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

  Paul McCartney

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hate, past

• Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you’re under 30, whatever, but once you’re past 40 it’s just ugly.

  Courtney Love

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Once, Related

• For the past two years,the only thing the ‘Idol’ machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

  Corey Clark

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Thing, Attacking

• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Better, Improve

• I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

  Cindy Margolis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Fashion

• When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

  Robin Wright Penn

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Family, Respect

  Tags in past, Company

• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise – well, hell, to even things up next time around, I’m going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  Vanessa Paradis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in past, Time

• In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

  Robert Wyatt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Records

• One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it’s almost the only place that there’s any drama.

  Robert Towne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Place

• Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Bad

• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Reality, Act

• I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn’t ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone’s there.

  Robert Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Someone

• Never revisit the past, that’s dangerous. You know, move on.

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Dangerous

• There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

  Robert Nozick

  Topics in Future

  Tags in past

• I don’t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

  Robert Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Better, Writing

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, past, Tell

• Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

  Robert Henri

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Help, Made

• You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer’s picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor – no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

  Robert Frank

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Everything, Kind

• We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Help, Ever