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For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it. -- Les Claypool
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy. -- Robert Dallek
If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general. -- Ben Bernanke
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. -- Jim Cooper
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. -- Bruce Springsteen
My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it. -- Leon Redbone
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. -- Judy Holliday
I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that. -- Joyce Carol Oates
General rules have been legislated into being by past masters. -- John Ciardi
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. -- V. S. Naipaul
Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past. -- Alice Mattison
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. -- Lisa See
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. -- Gregory Crewdson
Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind. -- Coretta Scott King
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. -- David Arquette
The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future. -- Nicholas Sparks
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy. -- Samuel P. Huntington

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