Quotes with back-scratching

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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • H. Youngman I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bill Murray I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
    Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999)
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Dern I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Ann Rule I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Buck Owens I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Charles Manson I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something.
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  • Bruce Oldfield I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arne Duncan I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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