Backwards Quotes - Page 13

• Kangoroos can't hop backwards.

  Daniel Tosh

  Hops

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• Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Thinking, Employee

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• A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.

  Philip Pullman

  Cutting, Ordinary, Doe

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cab Drivers

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• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  Wale

  Talking, Common Sense, Fake

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• In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.

  Richard Lewontin

  Jobs, Mind, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

  Jack Welch

  Pain, Ideas, Salary

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• Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Art, Hurt

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• It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."

  Tim Kinsella

  Song, Fun, Sound

  Source: smilepolitely.com

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• A lot of times people have you pegged for what you are, and that's what you are and need to stay in. Going from an actress into my true passion for other people, it may seem kind of backwards.

  Demetria McKinney

  Passion, People, Needs

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Want, Six

  "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.

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• I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Way, Hats

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.227, Random House

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• My concern is the holistic development of society. No one should go back, everyone must move forward. Enough time has been spent going backwards; now let us pledge to stride ahead, whether it's in education, health, agriculture or education of our daughters. This Government belongs to the poor. It is to support the destitute.

  Narendra Modi

  Daughter, Moving, Government

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• See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.

  Narendra Modi

  Taken, Tired, Talking

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• I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baseball, Dumb, Singers

  Source: www.karsmakers.nl

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• [Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

  George Saunders

  Book, Long, Hyper

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, you know, going into any project, especially with a fan base as vocal and passionate as something as "Star Wars," you will have groups of people who will find issues with whatever it is you're doing. But our job was to tell the best story we could about characters that we loved, and we knew that we needed to go backwards to go forwards, and we needed to go back to a feeling and a place and a time.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Jobs, War

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Careers, Waiting, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Heart, Spinning

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• I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

  Curtis Jackson

  Eye, Opportunity, Stay Positive

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• Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Mean, Looks

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• I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

  Dolly Parton

  People

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• My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

  Andy Serkis

  Dad, Doctors, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.

  Meredith Brooks

  Kids, Player, Guitar

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