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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
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I'm back home, I find the flat parts of the course tougher. Because it's flat, I feel it more in my knees.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
- Head-On
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020