- 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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always, even with the U17s in Spain, U19s, we play from the back, and we try to improve on that a lot. So I always enjoy having the ball at my feet.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being back in New York is so exciting!
- Difficult Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020