A Quote by David Halberstam
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.
A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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