The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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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. ~John Lewis
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. ~Bill Wyman
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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