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When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'
Lynda Barry
Death
Saying
You
Book
School
Husband
Think
Sidekick
Says
Backward
About
Put
Like
Learn
Because
Said
Get
Oh
Stories
Little
Reason
Things
Start
Need
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.
Martin Jacques
Attitude
War
Down
Backward
Neighbours
Restoration
Adopted
Colonial
Mainly
Towards
Most
Looked
Identify
Sought
Continent
West
Years
Itself
Inferior
After
Japan
Asian
Next
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.
Mercedes Schlapp
Values
Free
Free Speech
Society
Diminished
Backward
Religious
Having
Mentality
Becoming
Traditional
Traditional Values
Being
Where
Viewed
Speech
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael N. Castle
Welcome
Learning
Black
Backward
Colleges
Network
Segregation
Higher
Simply
Days
Schools
Policy
Traditional
Were
Historical
American
African
African Americans
Grew
Place
Many
Universities
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.
Mo Ibrahim
Colonialism
Subscribe
Backward
Because
Narrative
Africa
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
Monique Coleman
You
Bend
Our
Backward
Recognized
Touch
Split
Over
Heads
Get
Toe
You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
Ndamukong Suh
You
Mistakes
Backward
Kind
Learn
Go
Person
Move
Move Forward
Wants
Your
Who
Forward
A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.
Patrick Murphy
Political
Think
Backward
Folks
Determine
Calculation
Look
Policy
Lot
Then
Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.
Paul Di Filippo
Time
Strange
Shifting
Changes
Changing
Backward
Phrase
Through
Writers
Instant
Look
Readers
Exhibit
Encounter
End
Begin
Same
Tastes
Them
Acquiring
Themselves
Meanings
Moment
Even
Novel
Novels
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
Paul McCartney
Pool
Resources
Backward
Writers
Look
Also
Unusual
Because
Your
In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
Pete Buttigieg
People
Fears
Whatever
Ways
Backward
Part
Look
Trump
Wants
Them
Many
Appeals
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
Rihanna
Girl
First
Club
Other
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Pants
Backward
Out
Would
Hat
Dressed
Like
Always
Go
Opposite
Sneakers
Going
Just
Wanted
Polo
Fourteen
Started
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Mind
Anchored
Backward
Develop
Advance
Go
Decay
Cannot
Grow
Shrink
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
Ron Livingston
Good
Think
Everybody
Backward
Would
Would-Be
Little
Really
Actor
Thinks
We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.
Scott Borchetta
Work
Crazy
Big
Group
Machine
Backward
Label
Mantra
Start
A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
Sean Astin
Me
Car
Down
Back
Once
Backward
Out
Running
Drifting
Reached
She
Because
Courtesy
Hand
Hit
Get
Moved
Bus
Street
Her
Started
Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.
Sonali Bendre
Life
Backward
Life Goes On
Look
Goes
Should
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Stephen Gardiner
Wisdom
Knowledge
Backward
Step
Taken
Step Forward
Greater
Forward
Search
Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.
Stephen Kinzer
God
Genius
Islam
Approach
Saw
Approved
Arab
Backward
He
Tradition
Being
Turkish
Expression
Listen, trials and difficult times can help you become better and move forward, or they can cause you to step backward. It's how you handle those situations that shows who you can become.
Taysom Hill
You
Trials
Better
Cause
Become
Difficult
Those
Backward
Step
How
Times
Handle
Listen
Situations
Move
Move Forward
Help
Who
Forward
Shows
Difficult Times
My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.
Teddy Thompson
Travel
Money
Band
Own
Living
Enough
Everything
Bit
Backward
Out
My Own
Point
Could
Tour
Make
Because
Still
Hire
Goal
Lot
End
Up
Get
Did
Getting
Where
Fan
Fan Base
Which
Means
Paid
Base
Near
Nowhere
Started
I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.
Tyson Fury
School
Bit
Backward
Go
Little
Little Bit
Really
Manmohan Singh, during his tenure as Prime Minister, said that Muslims have first right over the resources of this country. Where will the Dalits, backward, women, tribal, and others go?
Yogi Adityanath
Women
Will
Tribal
First
Country
Others
Resources
Backward
Muslims
Minister
Prime
Tenure
Prime Minister
Over
Said
Go
His
Where
Right
After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward.
Erik Prince
CIA
Few
Gone
Hundred
Backed
Backward
Pentagon
Devastated
Since
Taliban
Forces
Operations
Exercise
Nation-Building
Effort
Afghan
Conventional
After
Personnel
Turned
Special
Al-Qaeda
Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Backward
Go
Revolutions
It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.
Martha Nussbaum
People
Face
Easier
Backward
Always
Than
Forward
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