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It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
I have always said that I am one to look forward rather than back; what has happened in the past I can't change now. What is forward, I can.
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
I never quit. The times when I have quit in the past because I couldn't face trying harder have stayed with me, and the guilt is not worth it.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
I don't do films for charity any more. In the past, I've done that for friends or people who couldn't not afford to pay. But now money matters.
The people who have been helping me in the past continue to support me. Many of them supported my father, and the support isn't just financial.
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.
You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.
God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.
The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.
Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.
In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
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.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.
Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.
Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.
Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.
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.
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
You hear players in the past say that it's just a job for them, but for me, it is nothing like that. I literally wish I could play football every day.
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.
I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.
I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.