Quotes with back-bite

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  • Aaron Klug However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anthony Weiner I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • William S. Gilbert I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Austan Goolsbee I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Phillips Brooks I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Steffi Graf I don't ever look back. I look forward.
    Steffi Graf
    German tennis player (1969 - )
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  • Bubba Smith I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Tupac Shakur I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Toni Morrison I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Burt Young I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
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