Quotes with back-bite

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  • Brody Jenner Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Harold Robbins Haldeman Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Alan Sugar Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
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  • Aaron McGruder Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Boris Pasternak One day Lara went out and did not come back.... She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 15
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Browning One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Mikhail Strabo Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
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  • Edward Gardner Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
    Edward Gardner
    English conductor
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  • Baz Luhrmann Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • William John Bennett Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • Anita Roddick Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Ben Stiller Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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