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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.


John Cusack

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PHILIP T. M. I can't dwell on the past. Of course, you think about it every now and then. But you just try to loo...
D'ANDRE RUFF LET GO OF THE PAST! For the past is not holding on to you, you're the one holding on to it.
PHILIP T. M. I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some tree...
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RONALD A. HEIFETZ You try to keep it on the back of your mind and do what you can to keep the team first. I think we'v...
DANIEL BARD The thing you have to understand about fighter pilots is they never quite grow past the stage of lit...
TOM CLANCY I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. Y...
SHANE WARNE We just rewrote a script based on John Grisham's 'The Runaway Jury' starring John Cusack and Gene Ha...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
MASON COOLEY I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They sta...
JACK CANFIELD Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. Y...
SHANE WARNE We didn't match up well with their speed. It seemed like every time they got the ball up front, they...
ART WEAVER A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root...
MARCUS GARVEY In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses�...
YVONNE PIERRE Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa...
F. SIONIL JOSE When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
MARGARET CHASE SMITH When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
MARGARET CHASE SMITH In order to encounter a better future, one must walk past their past
REZA FARIVAR People blame their failures on past birth, destiny, surroundings, and rarely to self in the order of...
SANDEEP SAHAJPAL I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, wi...
ALICE WALKER The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurr...
CHARLES JAMES We'll have some specialized topics like in the past. But next year we'll open up a bit more so peopl...
DERICK VIRGIL Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's pa...
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OSCAR GOODMAN Once they are past some of their immediate issues, which are the work force issues, we need to sit d...
BOB BUCKINGHAM People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seei...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
BEN E. KING People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.
STEVE BERRY Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes its...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT People need to be able to forget guilt & worry of their past that cause nothing but pain and heartac...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.
BECCA FITZPATRICK I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. The...
TERRY CREWS To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive ...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their s...
MOTHER ANGELICA Thirteen of the 14 past graduates came back for graduation this year to accept their scholarship cer...
DEAN CHASE For those critics to ignore their own past statements, exposes the hollowness of their current attac...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into ge...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dar...
DAVE PELZER Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nati...
LAURA ESQUIVEL I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriou...
JASON ISBELL They spend their time looking forward to the past.
JOHN OSBORNE A lot of other kids in the past have paved the way. I always try to help others wrestle their best. ...
BRENT FOSHEIM We will continue the talks that we've had in the past two days.
MICHAEL JENNINGS Last year was like going to Disney World for the first time. This year, I've got past all the distra...
BRENDAN FLANAGAN People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a ...
ALASDAIR GRAY Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream. -Ted Bundy
TED BUNDY Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...
JARED DIAMOND I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't...
MEG CABOT He's shooting great from everywhere on the floor. So with guys like that, the best thing to do is ju...
DRAKE REED Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object...
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COLIN POWELL There is one kind of guy you try to keep a secret and then there are some kids that just need an opp...
BLAKE BEDDINGFIELD To those that say holding onto the past is a bad thing. I say this... The past has sparked the fire ...
JONATHAN MICHALIK It was fascinating to see people who had never been to Yellowstone, see the landscape that lived in ...
ROSEMARY SUCEC In the past I've had to call people at home and tell them to bring their score card in.
BILL REED I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or prea...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR These are decent people and I don't know what went on in their past, but it was probably an oversigh...
KAREN JAMES John had a lot of people ditch him in the past or would befriend him and not stay in contact. I didn...
ANDRE DOBSON I remember things like dates down to minutes, what they smelled like, how they walked and how they t...
DOMINIC RICCITELLO I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
DEYTH BANGER To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...

"Dexter: You seem uncertain. I...
DEYTH BANGER There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springstee...
JACKIE DESHANNON As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological ...
ZAHI HAWASS They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past
JOHN OSBORNE We're going to try to manufacture a big-scale piece called a Memory Wall. When you walk past the Mem...
JAMES CLAR We know people are starting to receive their gas bills and that they're much higher than they've eve...
ELIZABETH CASTRO I think it's been mischaracterized all along. I think that over the last few years it's a situation ...
GREG GENSKE We've had people in the past bring their propane barbecues inside to heat their home. That presents ...
CAPT. PAUL MCDONOUGH orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.
TOM DELAY But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public o...
ED SHEERAN Some people are kind of dumb about it and it's just right there on their page. Some people have pict...
BRIDGETTE SMITH All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their p...
TONY JUDT I try to forget the past.
CLAUDIO RANIERI Their frame of reference is disappearing. You know who you are based on your past. You use that to p...
CHRISTOPHER CLARK Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is abou...
LAWRENCE LESSIG The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their deb...
SUZANNE FIELDS We want students to choose their campus based on their interest and the space available. We want to ...
BARRY QUALLS Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
TATUM O'NEAL Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bo...
SIMON CAMERON It's kind of hard to outlive your past
RICHELLE MEAD I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me...
VALERIE JUNE I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me
JAMIE FORD I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
CECILY STRONG Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.
ASAP FERG I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, th...
JACK KEROUAC I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in hast...
LOIS LOWRY You have to go to work - on things that we've done in the past and keep things simple.
DAVE AKER We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in...
LILLIAN HELLMAN The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people ...
COLIN MOCHRIE Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their nat...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC In the past, mushrooms were maligned as nutritionally poor. Since they are about 80 to 90 percent wa...
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JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN