Quotes with back-bite

Quotes 241 till 260 of 840.

  • Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, jack
    I went out for a ride and I never went back.
    Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
    I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
    The River (1980) Hungry Heart
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Louise Erdrich I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Brooke Shields I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Charlie Chaplin I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Marshall Field I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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  • Jean Baudrillard I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Adrienne Rich I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • August Strindberg I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Joyce Cary I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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