Quotes with back-bite

Quotes 781 till 800 of 840.

  • Joan Didion When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
    (2017)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Les Brown When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Malcolm X When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Zobrist When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Burt Rutan When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bode Miller When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Brian De Palma When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Buddha When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anita Roddick When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bethany Mota When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Jack Canfield When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.
    Jack Canfield
    American author and motivational speaker (1944 - )
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  • Bill Hader When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bob Harper Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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