Looking Back Quotes - Page 6

• I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my soul. He's Lucifer. I'm torn I'm selling my soul to the rhythm because I'm become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I'm not looking back.

  Selena Gomez

  Song, Baby, Love You

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• It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.

  Alana Blanchard

  Thinking, Surfing, Tiny

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• My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Moving, Past, Talking

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Eye, Giving

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Lying, Past, Circles

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

  John Henry Holland

  Data, Principles, Looking Forward

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life. But no, I would watch all of them - the Warner Bros. cartoons and the Bugs Bunnys and then the Tex Avery stuff. Looking back on it, they were so incredibly subversive for their time. You'd think, "Oh, they're just making jokes and this or that." But when you watch them as an adult, you think, "Oh no, they were talking about some pretty deep stuff."

  Jon Hamm

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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• Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Thinking, Fifteen

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

  Neil Young

  Past, People, Generations

  Source: www.theabsolutesound.com

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• One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Night, Sky

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• An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

  Ursula Parrott

  Divorce, Wife, Necks

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

  Mark Haddon

  Nice, Home, Class

  "Mark Haddon: 'Don't go out and buy an Aston Martin, is the only rule'" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  W. G. Sebald

  Clouds, Views, Perspective

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Emigrants”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  Zachary Quinto

  Purpose, Interviews, Remember

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• Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Funny, Sports, Thoughtful

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• I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Memories, Talking, Digging

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

  Cobi Jones

  Ideas, World, Cups

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• When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Regret, Thinking, People

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Fall, Men

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• It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Christian, Religious, War

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• Every film comes out of an intuition, where I'm at, at that moment in particular. But looking back on my work, somehow I get back to masculinity and how men are taught to avoid showing how fragile they can be, or to people who are in constant movement.

  Omar Zuniga

  Men, People, Intuition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Careers, Littles, Too Much

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• I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

  Donna Tartt

  Mistake, Book, Fall

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• ...With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays on offense the rest of the game. It's a lot easier looking back and analyzing going for two.

  Dennis Franchione

  Games, Play, Two

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• When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Sports, Past, Years

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