Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Composers are always going back to the past.
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.