For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?