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Every work of art changes its predecessors.
Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.
To Yelena, our newest food taster. May you last longer than your predecessor.
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
Moreover, there is nothing wrong in wearing a bikini or other skimpy attires, as many of my predecessors have set a trend in it.
Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.
I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.
We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
Growth theory did not begin with my articles of 1956 and 1957, and it certainly did not end there. Maybe it began with 'The Wealth of Nations'; and probably even Adam Smith had predecessors.
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.
I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.