Backwards Quotes - Page 18

• You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself backwards. No, you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it because you've never seen it before.

  Gus Van Sant

  Mirrors, Self, Looks

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• Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

  Ginger Rogers

  Girl, Men, Heels

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• I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

  Kate Winslet

  Regret, Believer, Ifs

  "The Clive James Show", 1998.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Heart, Spinning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.

  Moshe Arens

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Rewards, Maintenance

  Adam Smith, Bruce Mazlish (2003). “The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

  Trey Anastasio

  Hiatus, One Thing, Ifs

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• Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

  Edward Young

  Yesterday, Looks

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.31

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• As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.

  Michael Malone

  Sweet, Makeup, White

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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• We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.

  Henry Reed

  Spring, Flower, Slides

  "Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" l. 20 (1946)

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• The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Wire

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• I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.

  Joe Wright

  Adventure, Expectations, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

  Frank Capra

  College, Ideas, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.

  Laura Benanti

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

  Harvey Mackay

  Toes, Walks, Ifs

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Mad, Trying

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• I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

  Thomas Merton

  Way, Unexpected, Strange

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• Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

  Ian Fleming

  Jobs, Might, Waste

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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