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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
It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need new energy back in Washington.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle between craft breweries and big beer stretches back to the 1990s, when the idea of buying a beer brewed by a small, independent brewery first took off.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.
- Nov 07, 2020