- 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.
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- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, my style was pretty much Marvel house style - very large, thick characters, very musclebound, not very flexible.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of musicals when I was younger. And then I went to Northwestern University, and I did more musicals. I went on to do more work in Chicago, and then while I was in college, I got flown out to Los Angeles to do a screen test for 'Back to the Future.' When I got to Los Angeles, I was like, 'Hmmm, this is different.'
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every cell in our body, whether it's a bacterial cell or a human cell, has a genome. You can extract that genome - it's kind of like a linear tape - and you can read it by a variety of methods. Similarly, like a string of letters that you can read, you can also change it. You can write, you can edit it, and then you can put it back in the cell.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020