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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

• This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Need, Year

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Topics in Work

  Tags in past

• Everyone has a past.

  Darrell Issa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• I don’t really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past

• The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

  Rich Lowry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Said

• 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

• Never mind a world that can’t see past brutality.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, past, Brutality

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  Barney Oliver

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Earth

• After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

  Robert Dale Owen

  Topics in Future

  Tags in past

• 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

• 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.

  David Antin

  Topics in Society

  Tags in past

• After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, After

• But it’s funny that now I’m in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I’m just so glad I’ve been able to get to this point.

  Rick Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, past, Long

• 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

• 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

• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  George Santayana

  Topics in History, Life

  Tags in Remember, past

• 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

• Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

  David Brock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, past

• Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It’s happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, past