The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like 'Louie Louie.' I just aim toward that, and I think I've gotten better at it.
Stone Gossard
PastPeopleSingingThinkBetter
Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It's a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.
Elizabeth Flock
FuturePastLongConservativeOil
Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported.
Jean Chatzky
PastLateYearsDaysAnythingStay
I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
FocusPastBuildingBelieveExercise
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
GoodPastReadingConversationMinds
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
FriendCatsPastHappyHorseDoing
Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.
Henry M. Morris
PastPlaceNowCreationIn The Past
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
Rosemary Mahoney
LifeGodDarknessPastSpiritual
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
Christiane Amanpour
FamilyLoveRespectGratefulPast
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.
Shelley Duvall
LifePastMeActingYearsSeven
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
FutureScienceHatePastBiology
I don't think I've been shy in the past. Young and uncomfortable, maybe. But shy? It has become this annoying term that I've been lumbered with.
Kelly Macdonald
PastThinkUncomfortableYoungShy
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.
Trygve Lie
PastRiverBagTakeThrowEast
In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
Duncan Jones
ExperiencePastVideo GamesGame
I don't really want to leave anything in life behind. We have bad experiences, we have difficult experiences, but if you leave everything behind, you have no past.
Joshua Oppenheimer
LifePastYouBadWantDifficult
I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.
Allison Williams
PastSmartLongCareerYoungRun
In my life, I think I have had more than two hundred significant breakthroughs that exponentially accelerated my life forward. However, each and every one of them was preceded by a breakdown that was not pretty, was often scary, and often felt like something I would not get past.
Mark Goulston
LifePastForwardThinkMy LifeTwo
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.
Jeffrey Eugenides
FamilyTimePastWritingStoryMore
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
Henry Rollins
MusicPastWarPeopleSongStop
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari
LifeHopePastI AmMy LifeKings
I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
Christopher Buckley
PastYouLookNiceLivingWill
We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.
Shervin Pishevar
FuturePastThinkingAheadSteam
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
John Dalberg-Acton
LifeLivePastLookBackTwice
I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.
Killer Mike
CommunityMirrorMyselfPastHurt
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