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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. (Doug Larson)
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one. View quote
Alexander Wang
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image. View quote
Diane Duane
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. View quote
Marvin Harris
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial. View quote
Allen Klein
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. View quote
Andrew Greeley
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. View quote
Brian Williams
A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays. View quote
Bruno Rossi
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. View quote
Charles Jencks
I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters. (Corin Nemec)
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public. View quote
Carlisle Floyd
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. View quote
Diane Wakoski
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. View quote
Earl Browder
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. View quote
Frank Gaffney
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. View quote
Gavyn Davies
When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year. View quote
Jack McBrayer
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. View quote
Ken Burns
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them. View quote
Linda M. Godwin
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. View quote
Lukas Foss
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy! (Larry R. Williams)
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. View quote
Norman McLaren
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out. View quote
Piers Corbyn
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time. View quote
Parminder Nagra