People From The Past Quotes

• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being targeted unfairly, that the rules have been set up in a way that authorize unfair treatment of them, and how difficult it is to challenge these laws in the courts. We need to teach them how our politics have changed in recent years, how there has been, in fact, a backlash. But we need to couple that information with stories of how people in the past have challenged these kinds of injustices, and the role that youth have played historically in those struggles.

  Michelle Alexander

  Couple, Struggle, Past

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern by the people. In the past, but even now it is called a "Heavenly Mandate". If the rulers fail to respect the will of the people, they get deposed. And the Communist Party of China is greatly respectful of the desires of the majority of the Chinese people.

  Andre Vltchek

  Party, Past, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.

  James Vance

  Book, Past, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Beautiful, Past, Delicate Things

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

  David Liss

  Past, Interesting, People

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• Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.

  Lawrence Bender

  Creativity, Artist, Past

  "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.

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• I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.

  Marc Jacobs

  Beautiful, Real, Character

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• We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

  Alan Mulally

  Recovery, Past, People

  Source: 247wallst.com

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• Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, People, Pieces

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• Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

  Merrill Markoe

  Past, People, Behavior

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.

  Michael Weatherly

  Past, People, Directors

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• Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

  Steven Adler

  Past, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  ""Back From The Dead": Steven Adler Delivers A True Rock Masterpiece". Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. November 25, 2012.

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• Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

  Roger Moore

  Couple, Past, People

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• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

  Will Self

  Past, Order, Years

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• No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

  Marco Rubio

  Eye, Past, People

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• Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

  Theresa May

  Past, People, Expectations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Thinking, People

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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  Gail Collins

  Optimistic, Past, Flying Cars

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