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I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past. -- John Cale
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. -- Paul Auster
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. -- Harold Prince
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. -- Oscar Hijuelos
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time. -- Arnold Palmer
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. -- Billy Corgan
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? -- Arnold Palmer
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. -- Roy Bennett
If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay. -- Pierce the Veil
We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in. -- Dwyane Wade
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. -- Hugh Hefner
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past. -- Townes Van Zandt
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. -- Carlos Santana
I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually? -- Ian Rankin
My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future. -- Michel Martelly
I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past. -- Kalpana Chawla
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see? -- Martin Scorsese
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. -- Colm Toibin
When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow' was indeed the campaign's anthem. -- Jeff Greenfield
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. -- Chris Ware
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now. -- Gavin MacLeod
When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years. -- Bjorn Lomborg
We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race. -- Donna Brazile
People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK. -- Noreena Hertz
I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them. -- Jennifer Egan
[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up. -- Cliff Chiang
I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today. -- Maggie Tabberer
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future. -- Dru Pagliassotti
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know? -- Gwen Stefani
For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge. -- Patrick Demarchelier
We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future. -- Chuck Klosterman
I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes. -- Chris Rock
I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now. -- Danny Masterson

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