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Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.
Andy Dunn
Future
You
Sometimes
Past
Back
Must
Go
Move
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith
Future
You
Will
Become
Past
Reflect
Young
Think
Carry
More
Hymns
Come
Know
Comfort
Always
How
How Much
Realize
Much
Fragile
I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer, echoed through the neighborhood.
Andy Ngo
Myself
Prayer
Experience
First
Past
Down
Neighborhood
Visit
East
Muslim
London
About
Through
Highest
Road
Tower
Call
Walked
Wanted
Cut
Communities
Among
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.
Andy Samberg
Parents
Accident
Past
TV
Stay
Main
How
Were
Sneak
Up
SNL
Room
Asleep
Used
Who
Event
Saturday
Watch
Started
Watching
Night
I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
Andy Summers
Great
Past
Nostalgia
Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market.
Angela Merkel
Good
Past
Market
States
Negotiations
Enter
Responsibilities
Would
Outcomes
Having
Costs
Compromises
Outside
Never
Countries
Reach
Led
Same
Common
In The Past
Shoulder
Many
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
Angela Merkel
Me
You
Past
Took
Scarcity
Could
Because
Times
Get
Hoard
In The Past
Ingrained
Inclination
Deeply
Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
Angelina Jolie
Beautiful
Dark
Will
Past
Think
Relate
Side
Furious
Way
Outcast
Facets
Abuse
She
Been
Person
Any
Just
Children
In The Past
Interesting
Reason
Who
Now
Suffered
Why
Her
At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
Angie Thomas
Life
Death
Time
People
Black
College
Lost
Past
Young
Oakland
Unarmed
Record
About
More
More People
Fact
Had
He
Headlines
Talking
Making
Were
His
Male
Than
Done
Just
Grant
Who
Oscar
I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
Angus Deaton
Past
Gone
Rich
Think
Threat
Point
Inequality
Becoming
Get
Where
Us
Really
Helping
Serious
I never thought we'd be put into any sort of historical thing. When we started as a band, it was a day-to-day thing. You sort of played a gig, you got your money and thought, 'OK, where's tomorrow's gig?' You never thought you'd get past a summer.
Angus Young
You
Money
Tomorrow
Thought
Past
Band
Summer
OK
Gig
Never
Put
Day-To-Day
Sort
Got
Historical
Get
Any
Your
Thing
Played
Started
Grant us more powers, not less; grant us more democracy, not less; grant us the tools to move forward because, I can assure you, Puerto Rico will move forward. We did it in the past; we will do it again.
Anibal Acevedo Vila
Democracy
You
Will
Past
Assure
Tools
More
Powers
Because
Did
Move
Move Forward
In The Past
Again
Us
Grant
Rico
Less
Forward
Puerto
Puerto Rico
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai
Family
History
Book
Backwards
Past
Believe
Digging
Back
Ancestors
Visits
Give
Felt
Impression
Begins
Family History
Going
Ends
Tunnel
Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
Anita Roddick
Business
Past
Back
Tried
Pursued
Part
Put
Smaller
Idealism
Over
Call
Been
Past Decade
Decade
Movement
Different
While
Agenda
Businesses
Many
Usual
The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.
Ann Leckie
People
Internet
Past
Happen
In The Past
Conversations
Really
Connect
Connections
Lets
One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?
Ann Turner
Happy
People
Cats
Past
Teenager
Back
Mine
Sight
Favorite
High
Would
Inside
See
Windows
Rise
Rather
Horse
Could
Lighted
Because
Dogs
Doing
Were
Friend
Questions
Up
Any
Going
Who
Riding
Activities
Lives
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Anna Freud
Work
Future
Past
Live
Trapped
Our
Examined
Between
Waits
I think summer has become a venue for TV like it hasn't been in years past, especially on Sunday nights. I know that when I'm winding down at the end of the weekend, just a really great TV show or movie is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Anna Wood
Great
Doctor
Sunday
Become
Past
Down
Think
Nights
Summer
TV
TV Show
Exactly
Exactly What
Winding
Weekend
Like
Know
Venue
Been
Years
End
Just
Movie
Ordered
Really
Show
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
Annalee Newitz
Behavior
Past
Biology
Dissertation
Complete
Our
Unlikely
Relevant
Evolution
Evolve
Thousand
Willpower
Thousand Years
About
Ten
Dating
Over
Contemporary
Sure
Continue
Years
Affects
Lot
Questions
Quite
Quite A Lot
Psychological
Certainly
Deeply
Early
Humans
If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.
Annalee Newitz
History
Matter
Will
Past
States
Astounding
See
Economic
Look
Accumulate
Tiny
Pattern
Centuries
Capital
Europe
Population
United
United States
Portion
Two
Composers are always going back to the past.
Anne Dudley
Past
Back
Composers
Always
Going
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
Anne Perry
Good
People
Past
Differences
Missed
Because
How
Wonder
May
Often
In The Past
Based
The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Day
Strength
Great
Together
End Of The Day
Past
More
Individual
Stuck
Countries
Demands
Along
Balancing
Always
Been
End
Than
Discussions
In The Past
Europe
Even
Amount
Bringing
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
Annie Besant
Good
Nation
Past
Britons
Relations
Though
Tribes
Ancient
Boots
India
Entirely
Delicate
Colonists
Civilized
Uncivilized
Brutal
Highly
Over
Come
Remote
Cultured
Trample
Often
Forgotten
Where
Heavy
Sensitive
Whose
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Annie Dillard
You
Will
Past
Nothing
Aim
Through
Block
Wood
Chopping
It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
Annie Lennox
Women
Past
Tell
Individuality
Come
How
How Far
Years
In The Past
Far
Hard
Twenty
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