Quotes with back-scratching

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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Ben Folds With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Bryan Callen Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Hicks Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years......thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Bobby Sherman Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • W. Clement Stone You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Atom Egoyan You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Billy Koch You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
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  • Franz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Kimo Paki You can't bring back the past, and you're not promised the future, so enjoy life now.
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  • John Pierpont Morgan You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • George W. Bush You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bill Parcells You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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