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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Sam Ervin

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

R. Lee Ermey

Mistakes

Past

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Werner Erhard

Future

Past

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Ralph Ellison