Nostalgic Quotes - Page 3

• If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Past, Looks

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

  Stan Lee

  New York, Years, Neighborhood

  Source: wwd.com

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• You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Sports, Past, Climate

  Source: autoweek.com

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• To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

  Neil Peart

  People, Terrible, Prospects

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

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• I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, People, Rats

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

  Sheena Easton

  Real, Nice, Long

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• I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

  John Cusack

  Youth, Great Music, Scene

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• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  Daniel Clowes

  Trying

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• I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

  Julie Burchill

  Past, Ifs

  "Patriotism is for reactionaries ... nationalism is the way forward" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Balance, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.

  Werner Herzog

  Digital Revolution, Needs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.

  Tyra Banks

  Dream, School, Thinking

  "Tyra Banks Chats Modelland & Reveals Which Kardashian’s Gonna Be On Next Season of Top Model (Exclusive Interview!)". Interview with Dan Koday, www.clevver.com. October 25, 2011.

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• There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

  Joe L. Wheeler

  Autumn, Significant, Cascade

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• Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sweet, Book, Europe

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Jumping back into it was easy as apple pie, it was natural. Honestly, I'm not trying to be nostalgic and talk about the old days but I really believe wholeheartedly that the three of us, Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself really learned how to play our instruments together and now that we are playing together again it can't be anything but natural.

  Reed Mullin

  Believe, Jumping, Play

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important to her - her records, her books, even some furniture. She doesn't want to leave that house because it is her home. That is where her kids were born. After moving so much in my life, I was touched by Clara's need to stay in that apartment. I love her life, and that may be why I connected to her so strongly. We are the most alike when we are fighting for our rights.

  Sonia Braga

  Moving, Book, Kids

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

  David Longstreth

  Thinking, America, People

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

  Colum McCann

  Men, People, Evil

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Couple, Betrayal, Regret

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

  Jon McGregor

  Past, Vocabulary, Wonder

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Home, Childhood, Descent

  Stewart O'Nan (2003). “Snow Angels: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Believe, Moments, Roller Coaster

  Source: collider.com

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• a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Purple, Yellow

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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