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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

— Sam Phillips

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

— Chanakya

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

— Oscar Wilde

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

— James Stephens

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

— Matthew Simpson

Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

— Talia Shire

✗Opposing Perspectives

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

— Hilary Mantel

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

— Samantha Harvey

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

— Gerald W. Johnson