"We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past."

-- John D. Barrow

#Past Quotes #Foresight Quotes

“The flaws, the mistakes I make â€“ that's the real me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.”
“The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.”
“See you tomorrow,â€ he said, instead. â€œAll right.â€ Then, impulsively, I asked, â€œDo you have a place to sleep tonight?â€ â€œSure,â€ he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I donâ€™t know why it works that way, but it doesâ€”at least in my experience.”
“If I spend 100 days in a row making music thereâ€™s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music itâ€™s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.”
“A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.”
“It was fantastic returning to Being Human. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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