Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?"
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Looking Forward
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Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward."
Mara Wilson
Actress
"I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first."
Henry Louis Gates
Scholar, Historian
"I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians."
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"The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist."
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"And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track."
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"I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all."
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"I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness."
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"I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do."
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"Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified."
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"The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge"
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"We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already."
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"I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future."
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"I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again."
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"I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth."
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"I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward."
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"Right now I'm just single, but I'm really looking forward to the day when I'm happily single."
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"I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards."
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"I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!"
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"i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard."
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"Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper."
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