Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?"
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Ray Charles
Musician, Singer
"Don't go backwards - you've already been there."
Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil"
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm."
Warren Miller
Filmmaker, Writer
"The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been."
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"Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards."
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"Determine what your customers need, and work backwards."
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"I walk slowly, but never backwards."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards."
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"We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent."
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"'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards."
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"There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance."
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"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."
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"Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'."
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"The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards."
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"Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter."
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"Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life."
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"I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards."
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"It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards."
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"Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."
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"Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross."
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"I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva."
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"Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist."
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"When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that."
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