Looking Back Quotes - Page 5

• Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Way, Decided

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• Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, "I should've..." You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

  Rick Rubin

  Different, Watches, Outcomes

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2005.

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• I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sorry, Done

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• I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Hate, Dark, People

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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Role Models

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

  David Selby

  Dark, Creating, Shadow

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• I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

  Dennis Farina

  Crazy, Mirrors, People

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Our Generation, Cells

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• I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!

  Johnny Thunders

  New York, Home, Journey

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• I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff... I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.

  Woody Allen

  Wall, Trying, Reminiscing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 13, 2008.

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• "My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Long, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.369

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• Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

  Dido Armstrong

  Home, School, Thinking

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• Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Life Is Like, Gains

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Thinking, Acting, Satisfying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Lasts, Lost

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• Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Survival, Vision

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

  Laurence Sterne

  Funny, Book, Years

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.258

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• Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

  Christopher Bollen

  Art, Thinking, Video

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Evil, Interesting, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

  Mason Cooley

  Narcissism, Narcissist, Enjoy

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• Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

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• I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.

  Klaus H. Carl

  Retirement, Regret, Want

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• The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel." There was a definite smugness to his voice. "The higher up, the harder the fall.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fall, Angel, Mean

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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