Quotes with back-seat

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  • Andy Hertzfeld A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Virginia Woolf A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bennett Cerf A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Benazir Bhutto A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Brigitte Bardot A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • E. M. Cioran A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bayard Taylor Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Angela Carter Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Alan Alda After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 244
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Betty Carter After me there are no more jazz singers... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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