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• I never did that badly with women when I wasn't on telly, but it's a bit out of control now. Women try it on with me more than I'm comfortable with. It's strange, because I think I look like a troll wearing a woman's wig backwards.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "This much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2008.

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• At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Fall, Ends, Youthfulness

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want?

  Tarek Saab

  Emotional, Ideas, Catholic

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• I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

  Bob Hawke

  White, Australia, Yew

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

  Warren Miller

  Skiing, Best Things

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• If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Fall, Church, Germany

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• Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

  Tablo

  Lines, Finish Line, Walks

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• We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

  Daniel Byman

  People, Political, Police

  "When To Call Attacks 'Terrorism'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.

  Jill Stein

  Real, War, Moving

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Skills, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The family of Keith Scott viewed the police video and it`s worth repeating that afterward the family made a statement through their lawyers which reads in part, "It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands. When he was shot and killed, Mr. Scott`s hands were by his side and he was slowly walking backwards."

  Chris Hayes

  Hands, Police, What If

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then I'd come home - and sometimes it's legible, sometimes not - I typed the poem up. So I have a new, yet to be published, collection of poems now. It's called Walker's Alphabet, and among other things, it is about walking. My most recent collection of poems in 2010, incidentally, was titled WALKING backwards.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Morning, Home, Ipods

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

  Glenn Beck

  Connections, Different, World

  "Glenn Beck Is The Next To Slam SOPA: 'They Will Shut Down Voices Like Ours!'" by Jon Bershad, www.mediaite.com. January 18, 2012.

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• You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly just an inner valid intuitive thing. Where do you want to go? Ok this is busy, or this needs some space, or this is too much space so now I want to put more notes in there or something. It's all about contrast. High, low. Fast, slow, thick or thin or what have you. And it's the same with improvisation.

  Terry Bozzio

  Space, Want, Too Much

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward.

  Zeena Schreck

  Moving, Ignorance, Play

  Interview with Maxime Lachaud, www.zeena.eu. September 2011.

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• I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

  Ben Rector

  Heart, Perfect, Ashes

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• Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having those things, certainly doesn't guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. And that's when all those outer things come. They don't come from going after them first to get the happiness, it's backwards; you go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all of the other things from the outside appear.

  Marci Shimoff

  Home, People, Joy

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• A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

  Bill Gaede

  Hands, Today, Rockets

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• Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Fall, Love Is, Doors

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• It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Looks, Want, Rewards

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• Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

  Dorothea Lasky

  Flying, Currents, Force

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• Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

  Lucy Prebble

  Writing, Feelings, Want

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.

  Daniel Guerin

  Eye, Moon, Reality

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• Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Ideas, Crowns, Facts

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• Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

  Al Duncan

  Moving Forward, Self, Achievement

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