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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
Happiness
Great
Past
Find
Give
Simplest
Simplest Things
Retrospect
Occasions
Greatest
Glow
Off
Recall
Things
There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
Stephen Hawking
Made
Important
Living
Think
Plenty
Admire
See
Only
Dead
Retrospect
Because
Scientists
Contributions
Any
Who
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
Christopher Hitchens
Life
You
Gone
Consistent
Various
Advantages
Look
Dead
Retrospect
Make
Witnesses
Dealt
How
Were
Lot
Hands
Intended
Your
Show
Even
PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away.
Mark Goulston
You
Feeling
Go Away
Past
Extreme
Following
Retrospect
Vulnerability
Understand
How
Occurs
Causes
Go
Survived
Get
Trauma
Away
Awful
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
Naomi Alderman
Politics
Time
Fear
Recognisable
Easily
Easy
Retrospect
Always
Same
Acquiesce
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
Alexandra Fuller
Beautiful
War
Mother
Independence
Made
Men
Power
Nothing
Society
Our
Furniture
Astounding
Recognise
Come
Like
Retrospect
She
Well
Reveal
Always
How
Dominated
Shop
Childhood
Just
Patriarchy
Woodwork
Us
Really
Pair
Her
Kept
Raising
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
Amor Towles
Music
Change
Architecture
Painting
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Evolving
Pretty
Seems
Observable
Retrospect
Industry
Were
Arts
Pace
Century
Novel
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.
Amy Tan
Sad
Me
Age
Speak
Parents
Fluency
Later
Adult
Spoke
Combination
Until
Retrospect
Well
Force
Learn
Because
Doing
Five
America
Wanted
Chinese
English
Believed
Chance
To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.
Bill Lawrence
Me
Amazing
Try
First
Possible
Ratings
Seinfeld
Had
Mass
Disaster
Know
Retrospect
Became
Cultural
Anymore
Then
Show
Appeal
Phenomenon
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
Boz Scaggs
Saying
Time
Recording
Late
String
Seventies
Recording Artist
Had
Performer
Retrospect
Felt
Hits
Artist
After
Anything
Successes
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.
Catherine Tate
School
Before
Young
Think
Too
Drama
Finally
Tried
Plugging
Determined
Retrospect
Accepted
Got
Yeah
Times
Get
Just
Which
Central
Away
Four
Started
Kept
Speech
Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
Chris Squire
Persistence
Business
People
Job
Important
Enjoy
Difficult
System
Easy
Pretty
Somehow
Through
Part
Maintaining
Retrospect
Another
Important Part
Around
Making
Am
Still
Which
Muddled
Profile
Playing
I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
Daniel Lubetzky
Future
Alone
Time
Failure
You
Valuable
Will
Reflect
Think
Damn
Wax
Those
Easy
Pretty
About
Poetic
Know
Retrospect
How
Survive
Experiencing
Painful
Moment
Lessons
Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
Darryl Pinckney
Memory
Black
Every
Preserved
Virtually
Those
Musicals
Kind
Scenes
Remembered
Retrospect
Ready
Cousins
Exists
Texts
Square
Times
Times Square
Legends
Elderly
Grandparents
Mecca
Ever
Harlem
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
David Baker
Music
Ego
Validity
Threat
About
Rather
Retrospect
Than
Realize
In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
David Byrne
People
Made
Face
Stage
Sense
See
Face-To-Face
About
Like
Talk
Retrospect
Sure
Got
Screaming
Started
Twitching
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
David Sze
Best
You
Few
Investments
Obvious
Retrospect
Make
Venture
Venture Capital
However
Very
Them
Capital
Appear
Actually
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
Don Henley
Time
Ending
Some
Rather
Abrupt
Had
Retrospect
Although
Been
Ended
Quite
Quite Some Time
Note
Realize
Now
Eagles
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
Edmund White
See
Could
Mystique
Had
Period
Reactionary
Retrospect
Feminine
Been
America
Eisenhower
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller
Simple
Will
Endeavor
Worthwhile
Prospect
Retrospect
Right
In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
Harald zur Hausen
Life
Cancer
Will
Later
Hopefully
Prevention
Mainly
Also
Retrospect
Devoted
Scientific
Diagnosis
Question
Trusting
Infectious
Contribute
Human
Modes
Agents
Therapy
Novel
Extent
Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.
Howard Fineman
Job
Pressed
Though
Threats
About
More
Knew
Know
Retrospect
She
Well
Terrorist
Odd
Hearing
Question
Domestic
Closely
Rice
Asked
Acted
Certainly
Now
Why
Her
I'm fascinated with acting now. In retrospect, I was only beginning to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was exploring inside of me that I hadn't touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.
Hunter Schafer
Me
Beginning
Inside
Touched
Only
Emotional
Retrospect
How
How Far
Go
Off
Tip
Tip Of The Iceberg
As Far As
While
Iceberg
Chip
Far
Acting
Exploring
Fascinated
Now
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
Ina Garten
Me
Cooking
World
Mother
Job
Think
Chaos
Way
Would
Kitchen
Never
Had
Allowed
Studying
Like
Retrospect
She
Always
Very
Wanted
Orderly
View
Cook
Your
Her
After my eye test, I was told I was showing symptoms of glaucoma. I realised - but only in retrospect - that pains in my eyes and the feeling of pressure that I had been experiencing must have been because of that. I'd assumed they were symptoms of migraines.
Jane Fallon
Eyes
Pressure
Feeling
Assumed
Symptoms
Eye
Must
Only
Had
Retrospect
Because
Test
Were
Been
Experiencing
After
Realised
Pains
Showing
In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.
Jay Y. Lee
Fault
Care
Take
Had
Take Care
Taken
Retrospect
Lot
Shortcomings
Things
Needed
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