My Past Quotes - Page 7

• As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

  Andre Dubus

  Bullying, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That was always a dream of mine to play division one basketball. Not knowing that I wasn't going to get the opportunity because of my past and previous couple of years in college. The opportunity to play with only one year of eligibility was great.

  John Starks

  Basketball, Dream, Couple

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

  Adam Savage

  Prayer, Past, Listening

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• My future will be better than my past.

  Lil Wayne

  Past, My Future

  Song: Love Me or Hate Me, 2008

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• Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.

  Kambri Crews

  Growing Up, Dirty, Healing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  Van Jones

  Lying, Fighting, Past

  "Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Past, Deceit

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

  Pia Zadora

  Husband, Past, Years

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• I know my past is not what my future holds.

  R. Kelly

  Future, Past, Knows

  R. Kelly, David Ritz (2012). “Soula Coaster”, p.9, Hay House, Inc

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• It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

  George Foreman

  Memories, Past, Reminiscing

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.81, Thomas Nelson

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• Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

  Katrina Kaif

  Life Changing, Journey, Past

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• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

  Taye Diggs

  Past, College, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

  Shai Agassi

  Boys, Past, Israel

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• Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Dream, Past, Journey

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• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  Fernando Flores

  Past, Figure Skating, Prison

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• The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

  Franz Wright

  Past, Thinking, Grace

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

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• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, Thinking, Chaos

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.

  Radical Face

  Dream, Eye, Past

  Song: Sleepwalking, Album: Ghost, 2007

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• My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

  Hideo Kojima

  Memories, Past, Identity

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• My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Past, My Future

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• 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.

  Victor Cruz

  Athlete, Past, Normal

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• I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

  Carol Matas

  Strong, Past, Trying

  Carol Matas (1997). “After the War”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Regret, Grateful, Thinking

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• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Past, Hands

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.36, Nation Books

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• I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Fate, Past

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