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Back Quotes
Words about returning, backing up, and standing behind what matters.
This collection gathers lines built around the small word 'back' in surprisingly different contexts: political leverage handed back to Congress, actors returning from a shoot, and even a beauty routine built on backing up one step with another. See more reflective lines in our Always collection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I clip hand sanitizer to my purse. I used to be a babysitter back in the day, so I got germaphobic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.
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I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
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- Nov 07, 2020