Best i-can & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.”

“You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.”

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Author:James Young

“I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”

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Author:Amy Winehouse

“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”

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Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.”

Mean I Can Done Past Waiting Water Cooking Pasta Noodles

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”

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Author:Billy Zane

“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.”

Trying I Can Past Artist Certain Intention Spending Boredom Glances Plague

Author:Philip Guston

“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.”

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Author:Lenny Henry

“I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.”

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Author:John C. Stennis

“Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.”

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Author:Ronda Rousey

“I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.”

Trying I Can Facts Helping Would Be Past My Own Accepting Claims Foolish Contemporary Painter Phenomenon

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.”

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Author:Ryan Sheckler

“But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past - or more accurately, pastness - is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past”

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Book:Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History

Source: Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History

“As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.”

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Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!”

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Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

“I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.”

I Can Facts Past Wife Entertainment My Wife Bars Breasts Coming Out Juice

Author:Paul Reiser

“The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.”

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Book:The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“I've had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.”

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Author:Paris Hilton

“Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.”

Knows Feels I Can Different Sometimes Past Games Goal Moved Score Take Me Different Place Markers

Author:Zinedine Zidane

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