Backwards Quotes - Page 19

• It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime.

  Hillary Clinton

  Perspective, Justice, Important

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

  Bruno Mars

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Kind, Wanted

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we shot. We were tiny, tiny girls, only about ten years old at the time, so the recoil when we pulled the trigger would send us flying backwards. But he'd stand behind us and make sure we were safe.

  Amber Heard

  Girl, Dad, Years

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• "Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

  Ilana Glazer

  Men, Play, Cities

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Axes, Two, Wheels

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

  Mark Hoppus

  Fall, Scuba Divers, Boat

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

  Ira Glass

  Two, Want, Film

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

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• I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Museums, Offering, Australia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Greek, Training, May

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

  Dhani Harrison

  Sleep, Guitar, Firsts

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• Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

  Adi Shamir

  War, Winning, Battle

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• There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a simple bluegrass tune, sort of melancholy and sad, like "Lovin' and Lyin'," then it's sexy and there's some funny songs in there where I'm talking, like "Designated Drunk." There's a humor side, a sexy side, but there's also a pretty sad side, the country side. It's the backwards side of me!

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Sexy, Country, Song

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• For me, when I think about Christ, I think about this iconoclastic man who lived and died for the broken. And the paramount underdog, which is basically turning the world on it’s head. Blessed are the poor and blessed are the hungry, blessed are the broken, all these things that feel very backwards in our fame, power, beauty, riches hungry world. That’s who Christ is to me.

  Jon Foreman

  Blessed, Men, Thinking

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• Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

  Beck

  Song, Eight, Track

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

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• The strange part of MMA is that you lose one or two fights and people start to question you but he was on top for so long and it was purely his striking that made him so good. Nobody can step backwards and knock someone out as well as Chuck Liddell can.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Fighting, Mma, Two

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

  Oliver $

  Thinking, Make You Happy, Ifs

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• People are not afraid to be very direct with police. And I think that's part of the problem is that people are angry at the cops and then the cops are stressed out and they, you know, pay it backwards, so to speak.

  Jeff Ross

  Thinking, People, Police

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

  Charles Handy

  Islands, Work Out, Trying

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• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

  Tony Bennett

  Moving, Past, Who I Am

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1889, Simon and Schuster

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• To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

  Richard Branson

  Today, Stills

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• ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

  John C. Baez

  Math, Topology, Algebra

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• I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards."

  Matthew Healy

  Example, World, Levels

  "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

  Damien Hirst

  World, Commerce, Visuals

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