Quotes with back-end

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Duffy Daugherty My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
    Bonnie Hammer
     
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  • Bill Kurtis My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Taylor Swift My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Conrad Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Socrates Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Alcee Hastings Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never go back to your old front.
    Source: Reynolds - Hemingway: The Homecoming
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Robert Southey Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • O. J. Simpson NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
    O. J. Simpson
     
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  • Ben Vereen Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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