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In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.

Jimmy Carter

Agreement, Not Good Enough, President

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There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

Brian Eno

Thinking, Bored, Outsiders

Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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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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It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance from - and a new way of looking at - India. I'm grateful for the movement. I feel as if I've crammed several lives into one.

Karan Mahajan

Jobs, Distance, Grateful

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think he was so passionate about this team and loved every single player and the organization.

Steve Sampson

Team, Passion, Player

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I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

William Bolcom

Process, Composing, Make Sense

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In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

David E. Kelley

Thinking, Extra Time, Able

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Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

Dave Mason

People, Way, Looks

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Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Howard Fineman

Jobs, Odd One, Hearing

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The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

Song, Important, Lessons

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.

David Livermore

Successful, Thinking, Impact

Source: bobmorris.biz

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I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

Jamie Lidell

People, Understanding, Identity

Source: pitchfork.com

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I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden

Grateful, Thinking, Get Better

Source: djbooth.net

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The Lord givith and the Lord takith away. I was given a lot of signs from the universe and looking at it in retrospect made me feel like God was telling me I needed to follow my dream. My granny getting in that car accident and being at that hospital when I was going there to see my girl... that whole part of the story where I go to the show and come back to the hospital... and it was almost like as soon as I found out that my granny didn't make it as soon as I got back, I also found out that my son had just come out.

Ryan Montgomery

Girl, Dream, Son

Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.

Melissa Rauch

Upset, Looks, Moments

"Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.

Mike Birbiglia

Men, Two, Rude

Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

Mark McGrath

Song, Sound, Albums

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It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!

Suw Charman-Anderson

Communication, Ambition, Thinking

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I would wipe my tears, and walk out of the stall and the bathroom, and march myself back into that courtroom because the only way that I could deal with Keith's [ Griffin] murder was to feel like I was doing something about it. In retrospect, what did I do? I know that I put a lot of bad guys in jail and if I kept them off the street one day more, that may have been one less crime victim.

Nancy Grace

Jail, Guy, One Day

Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Jeff Sessions

Storm, Enough, Before The Storm

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Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

Ted Olson

Mind, Barbara, Wells

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The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.

Charles Mackay

Wise, Past, Men

Charles MacKay (2011). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds”, p.534, BookBaby

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In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.

Gillian Anderson

Dark, Past, Thinking

"Straightheads - Gillian Anderson interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Guillermo del Toro

Void, Impossible, Moments

Source: deadline.com

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So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

Laura Poitras

Powerful, Smart, Expectations

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