But that in and of itself this past year was not a factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there, or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.
Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.
We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
Everything is so fast now, everything is so disposable now, there's no time to build up a career like we used to have in the past.
Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days.
In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
