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True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
Anthony Albanese
Injustice
Fear
Odds
Past
Down
Conservatives
Recognise
Unable
Status
Status Quo
True
Reactionary
Represents
Being
Want
Quo
Anything
Gains
Even
Tear
Actually
Extent
We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.
Anthony Carmona
Dreams
Mother
Responsibility
Past
Ambition
Shoes
Our
Ran
Ensure
Wears
Environment
Roads
Emperor
Child
Afforded
Dusty
Realise
Holistic
Now
The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Anthony Lewis
Life
Fault
Political
Matter
Path
Past
Own
Humane
Other
Way
Negotiating
Security
Lies
Only
Failures
Israel
Where
Land
Palestinians
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
Anthony Weiner
Facebook
Women
Phone
Met
Past
Few
Twitter
Several
Online
Over
Occasionally
Years
Past Few Years
Conversations
Inappropriate
Engaged
If you're not a first-round pick or you're not 6-2, they always say you can't be the best. But the only time there's a weight class is before the draft. This is the NFL. It's all about what you do. I can run past guys and get done what I need to. I can do everything the big guy can do.
Antonio Brown
Time
Best
You
Class
Big
Past
Before
Everything
Say
Run
About
Guy
Guys
Only
Only Time
Pick
Weight
Always
Big Guy
Get
Done
Draft
Need
I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
Antonio Conte
You
Important
Single
Past
Every
Think
OK
Stay
Well
Did
In The Past
Player
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
Antony Beevor
History
People
Past
Some
Give
Voice
Because
Been
Denied
Want
In The Past
Novelists
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
Antony Beevor
Conflict
People
Approaching
Nation
Past
Pedestal
Crisis
Lies
Some
Temptation
Put
Supporters
Sort
Because
Always
Got
Sound
Any
Pattern
Clue
Themselves
Searching
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
Antony Beevor
Future
Time
Backwards
Past
Crisis
Security
Must
Lies
No Idea
Somehow
Compulsion
Through
Never
Idea
Look
Because
Got
Going
Just
Just Because
Automatically
In The Past
Mean
Muddle
Muddled
Notion
Resemble
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley
Art
Communicate
Past
Other
Liberated
Alive
Has-Been
Feels
Like
Still
Mixed
Been
Up
Modern
Duties
In The Past
Which
Central
Means
Function
Illustrative
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.
Apolo Ohno
Problems
Past
Down
Has-Been
Able
About
Since
Performing
Look
Make
Make It Happen
Always
Came
Issues
Were
Been
Happen
Regardless
Ice
Riddled
Funding
Started
Career
Past 'Drag Race' alum that I've spoken to, their biggest advice to me was, 'Expect the unexpected,' and, 'There's no way that you can prepare for this,' so I thought I was at least ahead of the curve knowing that I wasn't prepared.
Aquaria
Me
You
Thought
Advice
Past
Way
Spoken
Knowing
Least
Expect
Expect The Unexpected
Unexpected
Biggest
Curve
Race
Prepare
Prepared
Drag
Christmases past, my sister Carolyn and I - we'd been waiting for Santa all night. Nothing! Where is this man?
Aretha Franklin
Man
Waiting
Past
Sister
Nothing
All Night
Been
Where
Santa
Night
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
Future
Time
People
Better
Past
Young
Think
Thinking
About
Give
Something
My Time
Like
Talking
Around
Does
Accomplish
Sitting
Young People
Much
Use
I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.
Art Alexakis
Work
Me
People
Regret
Past
Honestly
Say
One Thing
About
Never
Talk
Done
Ashamed
Ask
Really
Hard
Twice
Thing
Things
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
Art Buchwald
Past
Before
Taking
Putting
Been
Off
Reform
Tax
In The Past
Tax Reform
Taxed
Taxes
Things
You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.
Art Malik
You
World
Diversity
Past
Reflect
Society
Drama
Nine
Entering
TV
See
Minute
Colours
Like
Another
Hues
Get
Different
Experts
Different Colours
Land
Watch
Britain
Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.
Art Malik
Art
You
Somebody
Past
Those
Says
Charles
Charles Dickens
Come
Prince
Prince Charles
Until
Got
How
Dickens
Movements
Anything
Fancy
Then
Turns
Round
Playing
Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric.
Arthur Laffer
Three
Past
Virtually
Remarkably
Over
Major
Periods
Policy
Reagan
Been
Years
Metric
Any
Tax
Tax Cuts
Public
Cuts
Successful
Measured
Public Policy
Each
Kennedy
Early
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
Arthur Levitt
Values
Seen
Past
Clearly
Over
Erosion
Decades
Ethical
Two
Everything that happened last year stays in the past.
Asdrubal Cabrera
Year
Past
Everything
Stays
Happened
In The Past
Last
Last Year
I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.
Asghar Farhadi
History
Past
Think
Definitely
Someday
About
More
Like
Make
Years
Historical
Than
Movie
Movies
Storytelling
Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
Ashlee Simpson
Me
Word
Car
Past
Mouth
Once
Out
Bad
Had
Taken
Said
Get
Did
Oh
Being
Soap
Washed
Away
Actually
You can't continue to reflect on the past.
Ashley Nell Tipton
You
Past
Reflect
Continue
I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
Ashwin Sanghi
Culture
Will
Glorious
Past
Our
Everything
Ancient
Must
India
Indian
Indian Culture
Admit
About
Am
Realise
Fascinated
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
Ashwin Sanghi
Me
History
You
Old
Myth
Past
Believe
Tend
Mystery
Take
Between
Combine
Like
Know
Reads
Proverb
Repeat
Been
Get
Going
Where
Patterns
Themselves
Then
Connections
Present
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