Quotes with back-scratching

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  • George Farquhar Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Benedict Wong Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Billy Eckstine Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Camille Paglia Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Art Rooney Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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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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