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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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