#resent

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#before #being #choices #cultural #felt

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#eight #four #i #i am #over

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#make #only #past #present #useful

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#father #had #house #known #me

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#around #best #big #body #crude

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#compete #faults #future #generally #got

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#determine #future #i #i am #i think

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#capable #carry #heart #less #loving

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#anyone #difficult #difficult time #energy #even