#the past

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#basis #building #important #important way #in the past

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#feel #free #i #in the past #past

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#certainty #days #direct #few #however

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it. ↗

— Christian Bale

#attack #backwards #began #few #forwards

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#begun #few #i #in the past #man

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#because #big #big band #did #i

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#boss #in the past #lead #leader #leaders

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

#because #body #cover #done #embarrassed