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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.