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What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

In the past, I always set definitive goals for myself, but I've stopped doing that.

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.

I started watching my own videos, rectifying mistakes and talking to our coaches. But there is a limit to self-learning but the past 8-9 years have helped me become self-reliant.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

I think that with my athletic ability people can't really get past me - because of my pace.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

I have learned from past experience with Internacional that you have to take one game at a time.

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

If you feel anything weird, immediately call 911 and give them your address because you may not make it past the phone call.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.