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Anybody who has traveled today knows that it's not the most pleasant experience. The entire process is backwards, we have been doing experiments and new solutions on the platform. Ultimately, that benefits the consumer. When there's innovation, you start to have disruption, you have competition which results in better prices for the consumer. – Pedro Anderson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm trying to go forward and trying to move forward. If I do drugs, that's moving backyards. If I live moving backwards, that means I'm living to die. – Lamar Odom	Found on CNN 4 years ago
No matter what we did, you would have to bend over backwards crazy to get something that wasn't this ring. – Katie Bouman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
House Judiciary Committee is bending over backwards to act in good faith, but White House has refused to produce a single piece of paper or a single witness to date, white House also withheld from House Judiciary Committee the policies that were in place during the first year and a half of the Trump Administration-which even General John Kelly admitted was plagued with problems. – Elijah Cummings	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think being gay and black in this country, it's very difficult to get jobs, to live life, just to cross the street, it seems like we're just going backwards to the '60s again. – Danielle Perkins	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I won't take a single step backwards, i can only offer people apologies, if this action causes sacrifices, harm and inconveniences. – Lopez Obrador	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We take it for granted that life moves forward. But you move as a rower moves, facing backwards—you can see where you've been, but not where you're going. And your boat is steered by a younger version of you. It's hard not to wonder what life would be like facing the other way… – John Koenig	added by TrekReichen 5 years ago
With an improving economy and a very low unemployment rate, the fact that our nation is going backwards on children's health coverage is very troubling, without serious efforts to get back on track, the decline in coverage is likely to continue in 2018 and may in fact get worse for America's children. – Joan Alker	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Mr Katter hit out at both the Liberal National and Labor parties. You destroyed the timber industry, the tobacco industry, the fishing industry, the dairy industry and half the sugar mills,he said. We can't farm here because of the Great Barrier Reef. Out west we can't shoot pigs because guns are bad. You can't remove trees, can't use the water out west, can't use the land or improve it. We're not standing still. We're not going forward, so we must be going backwards. – Bob Katter	added by anonymous 5 years ago
The Republicans in Congress right now … they’re no check on the White House. They’re bending over backwards to shield … folks from scrutiny and accountability, so look, I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. You know this. Here’s the good news. On Nov. 6, you have a chance to restore some sanity to our politics. – Former President Obama	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think what we have seen here is a pattern of delay. This seems to be a moving of the goalposts again, sen. Grassley has bent over backwards to offer every possible thing they want. – Carrie Severino	Found on CNN 5 years ago
New York is proud to have the strongest gun safety laws in the nation, and we won't let this federal government take us backwards. – New York	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Anything for [ transgender people's ] betterment can't be one step forward and three steps backwards. – Anitha Shenoy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It means that the U.S. can't take Mexico for granted any more, lopez Obrador will be pragmatic ... but he's not going to bend over backwards to have a good relationship. – Andrew Selee	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Church cannot be judge and jury, this is a backwards step. – Eneas Espinoza	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don’t want to see us go backwards, but organized interests fueled by ideology and huge amounts of money are trying to take us backwards. So I feel as strongly today as I ever have that we all have to stand up and defend our country, and most importantly, our democracy. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
These rules were put in place to prevent another massive oil spill off our coasts, we can't allow this new administration to take us backwards in time. – Bill Nelson	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Pathways out of extremism are very rarely instantaneous. It can take years for former extremists to fully disengage from this ideology. Expecting someone who was fighting alongside ISIS one day to be a legitimate ally in the fight against Islamist extremism the day after is an unrealistic expectation, the increasingly popular idea that we should not jail terrorists because that would only make them even more radical shows how utterly backwards this entire debate can become. Yes, prison radicalization does exist. However, the answer is to deal with the conditions that create prison radicalization – an inability to isolate charismatic Islamist recruiters, for example – not stop sending those who broke the law to prison. – Robin Simcox	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I used to go to the movie theater and watch horror movies and you know black people, we yell s --- at the screen, i ’d go watch like a Freddy movie and you ’d hear people saying s --- like, ‘ Oh, b ----, get out of the house ’ or ‘ No. no, no -- don’t walk backwards ! ’ or ‘ You’re white -- call the cops ! ’ I got it in my head that there was a missing piece of the conversation. There was a film that we were asking for, begging for that was n’t there for us. – Jordan Peele	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It was in rebuttal to the 4P’s concept that had been the cornerstone of marketing teaching since 1960 or so (and still may be, in many places). I felt that the 4P’s was wrong-headed because it looked at the marketing process from the company out, instead of from the customer in, which I felt was backwards. – Robert F. Lauterborn	added by anonymous 6 years ago
The moment I heard the sound, I just kind of moved backwards, i wasn't scared. It wasmore that I was shocked and I'm more like, 'Well how did that happen?’. – Trakel James	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There is a stock of ivory that circulates. If we can get hold of the ivory, we can work backwards until we get hold of the poachers. – Birama Sissoko	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I honestly don't understand why the White House is covering up for Michael Flynn, i don't get it, after the President fired him for lying — they should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense and it makes the American people think they have something to hide. There is a paper trail that the White House does not want our committee to follow it. – Elijah Cummings	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We were trying to uncover for the first time the true size of Coca-Cola's plastic footprint, and we are actually seeing them going backwards. Rather than investing more in refillables and reusables, they've increased their use of single-use plastic bottles over the last decade. – Louisa Casson	Found on CNN 7 years ago

Anybody who has traveled today knows that it's not the most pleasant experience. The entire process is backwards, we have been doing experiments and new solutions on the platform. Ultimately, that benefits the consumer. When there's innovation, you start to have disruption, you have competition which results in better prices for the consumer.

– Pedro Anderson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm trying to go forward and trying to move forward. If I do drugs, that's moving backyards. If I live moving backwards, that means I'm living to die.

– Lamar Odom

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No matter what we did, you would have to bend over backwards crazy to get something that wasn't this ring.

– Katie Bouman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

House Judiciary Committee is bending over backwards to act in good faith, but White House has refused to produce a single piece of paper or a single witness to date, white House also withheld from House Judiciary Committee the policies that were in place during the first year and a half of the Trump Administration-which even General John Kelly admitted was plagued with problems.

– Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think being gay and black in this country, it's very difficult to get jobs, to live life, just to cross the street, it seems like we're just going backwards to the '60s again.

– Danielle Perkins

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I won't take a single step backwards, i can only offer people apologies, if this action causes sacrifices, harm and inconveniences.

– Lopez Obrador

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We take it for granted that life moves forward. But you move as a rower moves, facing backwards—you can see where you've been, but not where you're going. And your boat is steered by a younger version of you. It's hard not to wonder what life would be like facing the other way…

– John Koenig

added by TrekReichen
5 years ago

With an improving economy and a very low unemployment rate, the fact that our nation is going backwards on children's health coverage is very troubling, without serious efforts to get back on track, the decline in coverage is likely to continue in 2018 and may in fact get worse for America's children.

– Joan Alker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Mr Katter hit out at both the Liberal National and Labor parties. You destroyed the timber industry, the tobacco industry, the fishing industry, the dairy industry and half the sugar mills,he said. We can't farm here because of the Great Barrier Reef. Out west we can't shoot pigs because guns are bad. You can't remove trees, can't use the water out west, can't use the land or improve it. We're not standing still. We're not going forward, so we must be going backwards.

– Bob Katter

added by anonymous
5 years ago

The Republicans in Congress right now … they’re no check on the White House. They’re bending over backwards to shield … folks from scrutiny and accountability, so look, I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. You know this. Here’s the good news. On Nov. 6, you have a chance to restore some sanity to our politics.

– Former President Obama

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think what we have seen here is a pattern of delay. This seems to be a moving of the goalposts again, sen. Grassley has bent over backwards to offer every possible thing they want.

– Carrie Severino

Found on CNN
5 years ago

New York is proud to have the strongest gun safety laws in the nation, and we won't let this federal government take us backwards.

– New York

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Anything for [ transgender people's ] betterment can't be one step forward and three steps backwards.

– Anitha Shenoy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It means that the U.S. can't take Mexico for granted any more, lopez Obrador will be pragmatic ... but he's not going to bend over backwards to have a good relationship.

– Andrew Selee

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Church cannot be judge and jury, this is a backwards step.

– Eneas Espinoza

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I don’t want to see us go backwards, but organized interests fueled by ideology and huge amounts of money are trying to take us backwards. So I feel as strongly today as I ever have that we all have to stand up and defend our country, and most importantly, our democracy.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

These rules were put in place to prevent another massive oil spill off our coasts, we can't allow this new administration to take us backwards in time.

– Bill Nelson

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Pathways out of extremism are very rarely instantaneous. It can take years for former extremists to fully disengage from this ideology. Expecting someone who was fighting alongside ISIS one day to be a legitimate ally in the fight against Islamist extremism the day after is an unrealistic expectation, the increasingly popular idea that we should not jail terrorists because that would only make them even more radical shows how utterly backwards this entire debate can become. Yes, prison radicalization does exist. However, the answer is to deal with the conditions that create prison radicalization – an inability to isolate charismatic Islamist recruiters, for example – not stop sending those who broke the law to prison.

– Robin Simcox

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I used to go to the movie theater and watch horror movies and you know black people, we yell s --- at the screen, i ’d go watch like a Freddy movie and you ’d hear people saying s --- like, ‘ Oh, b ----, get out of the house ’ or ‘ No. no, no -- don’t walk backwards ! ’ or ‘ You’re white -- call the cops ! ’ I got it in my head that there was a missing piece of the conversation. There was a film that we were asking for, begging for that was n’t there for us.

– Jordan Peele

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was in rebuttal to the 4P’s concept that had been the cornerstone of marketing teaching since 1960 or so (and still may be, in many places). I felt that the 4P’s was wrong-headed because it looked at the marketing process from the company out, instead of from the customer in, which I felt was backwards.

– Robert F. Lauterborn

added by anonymous
6 years ago

The moment I heard the sound, I just kind of moved backwards, i wasn't scared. It wasmore that I was shocked and I'm more like, 'Well how did that happen?’.

– Trakel James

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is a stock of ivory that circulates. If we can get hold of the ivory, we can work backwards until we get hold of the poachers.

– Birama Sissoko

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I honestly don't understand why the White House is covering up for Michael Flynn, i don't get it, after the President fired him for lying — they should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense and it makes the American people think they have something to hide. There is a paper trail that the White House does not want our committee to follow it.

– Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We were trying to uncover for the first time the true size of Coca-Cola's plastic footprint, and we are actually seeing them going backwards. Rather than investing more in refillables and reusables, they've increased their use of single-use plastic bottles over the last decade.

– Louisa Casson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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