- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big gamer, really. I used to play back in the day - 'Mario Brothers,' 'Mario Kart' and 'Mortal Kombat.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020