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My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
— Chang-rae Lee
The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.
— Kevin Systrom
I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.
— Martin Van Buren
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
— Ambrose
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
— Milan Kundera
One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.
— Herbert Hoover
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
— Ambrose Bierce
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
— Emile M. Cioran
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.
— Paul Gauguin
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
— Magnus Carlsen
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
— James Balog
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
— Mason Cooley
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
— P. F. Strawson
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
— Jim Morrison
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
— Tony Hoare
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.
— Ava DuVernay
Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?
— Ogwo David Emenike
The medieval islamic world offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors
— Bernard Lewis
Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.
— Christopher Hill
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
— Kofi Annan
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
— Shinzo Abe
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
— Paul Cezanne
It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.
— Mary Beard
We will never reach the world for Christ in our generation if we simply follow in the groove worn for us by our predecessors.
— Melvin L. Hodges
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
— St. Jerome
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
— George W. Bush
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
— Donald Rumsfeld
The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.
— Salman Rushdie
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
— John Eccles
We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.
— Tony Judt
One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death.
— Terry Pratchett