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• Picking roles, my way of choosing them is vastly different now than it was a long time ago, but I can only be that way now because of what I've learned from the past. So I'm choosing now not to choose any work, because when you've had such a nice ride, unexpected rides and fulfilling rides, you really don't want to take a step backwards. It's really made me satisfied in a way that I wasn't looking for, but I was blessed with it and now I feel really full, in a good way, where I don't need to rush out and go find something.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, Blessed, Past

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• When I first became "controversial" and the fanbase became divided it was backwards! Because normally in our industry, when you hear a certain noise, you become a bad guy. My job wasn't to do that, which was a bit of wandering into no man's land. At the WWE, it's our job to tell stories. I'm one of the few characters who can be in the WWE and can then take that experience and spin it out to real-life lessons. When you can clock into work and make a difference in someone else's life, that's a good way to make a living.

  John Cena

  Life Lesson, Character, Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Well, I think that when you think about the challenges we face, these are challenges that require us to look forward and not backwards. When it comes to the economy I think we have to recognize that we are now in a global economy. And that the measure of our success is: how well are we training our workers? How well are we investing in the new energy economy?

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Challenges, Training

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We have had people for so many generations dumbed down, literally dumbed down, who are now in positions of awesome and extreme power with influence over others, that we're paralyzed. And, if we're not paralyzed, we are backtracking and moving backwards. We are actually regressing, I should say, from magnificent progress that we as a nation and a culture and society have taken over hundreds of years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Taken, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

  Jonathan Dee

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Kids, Bored, Feminist

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge step backwards for the country and would weaken it considerably. In the era of globalisation, "splendid isolation" is not a smart option.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Smart, Cutting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.

  Earl Nightingale

  Believe, Successful, Law

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• You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Trying, Figures

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.

  David Grubbs

  Growing Up, Book, Silence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, as one would in a diary. As a child I used to write my diaries backwards in cursive. No one else could understand them. I think it trained me to be bold and admit feelings that I might feel otherwise scared to write down.

  Jill Magid

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

  Tennessee Williams

  World, Paper, Way

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

  Anne Sexton

  Trouble, Therapy

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

  Joan Baez

  Children, Sleep, Next Day

  Joan Baez (2012). “And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Character, Cutting, Simple

  Interview With Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how well we know folks, or how much we consider them peers, or how much social capital we've invested in them. That has to do with race, class, gender, and socioeconomic status. We have a tendency to bend over backwards to forgive folks we think of as part of "the us." The question of who we define as "the us" is a lot of what constitutes how we punish who we punish.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• History is a game played backwards only.

  Marge Piercy

  Games, History

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.129, Knopf

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• There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Done, Reason

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• To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

  William Penn

  Religion, Watches, Authority

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• As a consequence, I think of the idea of 'common practice' at any time as something that can only be seen by looking backwards. Maybe around the turn of the 20th century there might have been some kind of common practice but now it looks to me like the boundaries have come down.

  Jennifer Higdon

  Thinking, Common, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

  Derek Jacobi

  Book, Wind, Hands

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• It is time for us to say no, we are not going to backwards, we're going forward into a brighter future.

  Hillary Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.

  Beverly Johnson

  Girl, Fashion, Couple

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

  Thomas Merton

  Way, Unexpected, Strange

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