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“I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.”

Years Seems Past Used Concern Comic Novelists Over The Past Describe Myself

“I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.”

“I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?”

Thinking Want Past Changed Reader Now And Then Scotland

Author:Ian Rankin

“Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.”

Past Challenges Commitment Afghanistan Strengthening Underestimated

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.”

Past Form Literature Emotional Intellectual Creeds Castes

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.”

Past Injury

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

People Years Past Moving Race Groups Identity Variety Manners Southern Accents Yankees Brainwashing Brainwashed Confederate Ethnic Groups Brainwash Yankee Fans

Author:John Shelton Reed

“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”

People Ifs Past House Interest Streets Calling Silent Phones Corners Rings If I Could

Author:Kimi Raikkonen

“The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.”

Past Interest

Author:Leon Redbone

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.”

Stories Past Memories Our Past

Author:John Slattery

“In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.”

People Has Beens Past Memories Records Focus Tense Instagram Present Tense

Author:Kevin Systrom

“You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.”

People Knows Play Past Bits Watches Player Bigger Males Relate Watch Me

Author:Samantha Stosur

“It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.”

Hard Past

Author:Andy Summers

“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.”

Said Past Taken Car Mouths Soap Bad Word Curfew

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.”

Thinking Past Glitter

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.”

Done Light Past Culture Method Convinced American Culture Archaeology

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.”

Ifs Men Past Speak Tense Vienna

Author:Erich von Stroheim

“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.”

Thinking World Past Artist Bits Brain Information Computer

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.”

Years Sometimes Hard Past Policy Battle Foreign Policy

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“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.”

Ifs Feels I Can Past Can Not

Author:Mark Strong

“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.”

People World Made Reason Past Energy Lines Negative Dependent Short Life Physical Health Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined”

World Past Creation Buddhism All Time Other Worlds Past Present Past Present And Future Times Past

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.”

Different Body Past Energy Ability Practice Awareness Buddhism Access This Life Planes Linked Past Life Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Past Positive Illusion

Author:Esther Hicks

“In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.”

Mean Past Process Vote Majority Casts African American Voting Minorities Voters Percentages Ohio American Voters

Author:John Lewis

“I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.”

Past Fall Bars

Author:K. D. Lang

“We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.”

Thinking Past Opportunity Chance Our Lives Our Past Second Chance

Author:Jean Smart

“Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.”

Hard Past Sleep

Author:Joe Scarborough

“I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.”

Want Years School Past Return Terrible High School Pants Acne Hairdos

Author:Joe Scarborough

“Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.”

Should Government Past Democracy Good Work

Author:Manmohan Singh

“You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.”

Jobs Past Cases These Days Features Plague Avoided Down The Road Sequels Somewhere Down The Road

Author:Mark Strong

“Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.”

Made Today Past Opportunity Perfect Practice Progress Profit Corporations Immense Translate

Author:Maurice Strong

“Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.”

Book Problem Past Distribution Printing

Author:Peter Sotos

“In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.”

Years Past Months Six Election Unions Workers Rounds Eight

Author:Richard Trumka

“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.”

Looks Problem Past Desire Church Memories Building Goes On Weight Urgent Crushed Past Memories Building Something

Author:Pope Francis

“I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.”

Mean Has Beens Enough Past Film Process Natural Lucky Let Me Producers Makers My Past

Author:Charlize Theron

“If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.”

Ifs Want Helping Christian Past Memories Clear Safe Areas Tradition Past Memories

Author:Pope Francis

“As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.”

Needs Years Has Beens War Past Nations Powerful Cold Depth Seven Collections Capability Cold War Seven Years Expertise Over The Past Satellites Rebuilding Clandestine

Author:George Tenet

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.”

Way Trying Looks Long Today Past Views Security Solutions Ideology Inward Static Exaggerated

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.”

Years Past Energy Discovery Resources Productions Oil Landscape Gas Pace Outlook Accelerate New Discoveries Oil And Gas Geopolitical Pace Of Change

Author:Fred Upton

“Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.”

Should Past Virtue Position Vices Examination Good Faith

Author:Mark Udall

“I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.”

Years Has Beens Past Traditional Traditional Music

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

Thinking Moments Past Culture Growing Up Growing Malls Goth

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Has Beens Different Country Past Happened Response Decades Different Ways Hovering

Author:Amy Waldman

“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

Thinking World Children Past Worry Concepts Adults Our Time Engaging Submerged Worrying About The Past

Author:Chris Ware

“Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.”

Writing Done Past

Author:Cynthia Weil

“I have a sordid past.”

Past

Author:Dar Williams

“I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.”

Years Past Break Taken Media Spotlight

Author:Gemma Ward

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