#previous

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#different #had #held #i #job

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#books #comic #comic books #easy #effects

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #know #least #making #mistakes

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. ↗

— Paul Merton

#books #comedy #generations #history #humour

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. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#asian #bit #british #came #could

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that. ↗

— Larry Page

#like #liked #previously #really #tablet

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#come #could #different #done #i

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#being #car #comfortable #cup #did

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#been #category #command #completely #different