Rewind Quotes

• There is no rewind button for life.

  Nam June Paik

  Buttons

  Nam June Paik, Hong-hŭi Kim (2007). “Nam June Paik and Korea, from fantasy to hyperreality”

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• Time is real, we can't rewind it...
  Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
  Time did.

  Common

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

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• You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

  Jay Asher

  Inspirational, Change, Past

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• The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning - rewind and replay everything.

  James Patterson

  Way, Mystery, Enough

  James Patterson (2008). “Cross Country: (Alex Cross 14)”, p.11, Random House

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• There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

  Nam June Paik

  Buttons

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• I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational, Sports, May

  "Williams Victory In U.S. Open". www.wired.com. September 04, 2001.

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• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  Saffron Burrows

  Song, Guitar, Years

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• You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

  Alexandra Fuller

  War, Jumping, Hatred

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• I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

  Stuart Rose

  Wish, Different, Gone

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines.

  David Letterman

  Years, Machines, Today

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• We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Special, Progress

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• The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.

  Gayle Forman

  Mistake, Night, Mad

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• I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Two, Interesting, Doe

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I don't think there's any problem with technology. Actually rewind that thought - there is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

  Don Letts

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

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• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Spring, Secret

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

  Missy Elliot

  Rap, People, Giving

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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