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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
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a slow and lazy reader as a kid. 'The Prince and the Pauper' was the only non-school book I would read, over and over, between television, records and radio, until I picked up my aunt's copy of 'In Cold Blood' and she didn't ask for it back.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool thing about 'Spy Kids 3D: Game Over' was that Robert Rodriguez brought back 3D. I feel like he did with that film. Now, every film is 3D.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went back and watched a couple of the older 'Doctor Who' episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.
- Entranced
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- Nov 07, 2020