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I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabilitate 95 percent of the people who go into the prison system and come out, far more innocent people are going to be harmed.

I take references from the past and flip them.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

In the past, offshore wind farms have faced significant opposition in the United States for a few reasons: high costs, complicated rules about who gets to build on the seafloor and what they build, and complaints from people who do not want their ocean view obstructed.

In the past, I admit, I have not been a strong supporter of our top footballers, who seem to get paid a ludicrous amount of money while many other athletes still struggle for good facilities in most parts of the U.K.

It's cool to look at your past and rethink it.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven't reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are self-employed or have multiple income sources, hold on to six years of files to be absolutely safe.

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

I, for one, am, like, the most ordinary person. Like, people look past me all the time because I'm just so blending in.

I am prepared to reach out to work with colleagues in the national interest, even if we have disagreed in the past.

In the past, I've told people to get me DVDs: like, the box sets of entire series. When you're overseas and there isn't much else to do, they can be great.

'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.

When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.

There was nothing in my past that had lended itself to anything that had to do with space except for watching 'The Jetsons' and 'Star Trek' and stuff when I was little.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own rules, or if you're going to look at working class people, you have to do that in a particular 'Isn't it a shame, aren't they oppressed' way, or it's treated comically.