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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.


Kirk Douglas
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Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.


McKayla Maroney
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You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.
Michael Palmer
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I don't much like looking back.


Walter Hill
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I'm not a great one for looking back.


Ian Botham
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I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.


Judy Garland
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Damien Hirst
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No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
Junior Seau
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Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.


Frank Rich
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Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.


Andie MacDowell
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth
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I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
F. Gary Gray
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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
Raina Telgemeier
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For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.
The Edge
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I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.
Cher
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It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
Harvey Mackay
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Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
Jonah Lomu
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I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.
Lorene Scafaria
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
Irwin Rose
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