Came Before Quotes
106 Came Before quotes by 99 unique authors
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What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.
— Austin Kleon
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I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal…
— Marie Daulne
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The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
— Glenn Reynolds
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I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that.…
— Peter Green
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We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps…
— Carl Sagan
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Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and…
— John F. Kennedy
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You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the…
— Michelle Obama
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I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the…
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think…
— Jim Jarmusch
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I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my…
— Og Mandino
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Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before…
— Greg Graffin
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Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word
— Mother Teresa
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The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who…
— Troy Anthony Davis
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If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles…
— Barack Obama
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I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
— Len Wein
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These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women…
— Brian Welch
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We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those…
— Michelle Obama
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Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of…
— Jo Nesbo
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Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic…
— Guillermo del Toro
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I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think…
— John McCain
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When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came…
— Brian McKnight
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I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
— Shelley Berman
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