Backing Up Quotes

• When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Running, Wisdom

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.85, H J Kramer

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• You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Decision, About Yourself

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.

  Bill Gates

  Lying, Ocean, Mean

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Sea, Rivers

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

  Sxip Shirey

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Order

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• I always go backwards when I am backing up.

  Charles Portis

  Backwards

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.65, A&C Black

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, People, Band

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• All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Moving, Clothes

  "Titus / The Break-Up". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

  Colin Greenwood

  Mother, Play, Singing

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• People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

  James Caan

  Hands, People, Shakes

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• I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Tests, Parks, Drivers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Stars, Cat, Men

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• I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

  Carl Erskine

  Throwing, Good Success, Thirds

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• "Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time." I turned and met the amused eyes of Christian Ozera, a onetime annoyance who'd become a good friend. So good, in fact, that in my joyous zeal, I reached out and hugged him - something he clearly didn't expect. I was surprising everyone today. "Whoa, whoa," he said backing up, flushing. "It figures. You're the only girl who'd get all emotional about the thought of killing. I don't even want to think about what goes on when you and Ivashkov are alone."

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Christian, Eye

  "Spirit Bound". Book by Richelle Mead, May 18, 2010.

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• MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

  Charles Portis

  Believe, Backing Away, Raised

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.65, A&C Black

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• If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Brake

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• I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Music, Stars, Cat

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• History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

  Alan Bean

  Steps, Steady

  Interview with Jim Plaxco, www.astrodigital.org. October 3, 1992.

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• People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Running, Valentine

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• As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never expecting it not to be there, while still earning a regular rate of return. In a true free market, however, there tends to be a tradeoff: you can enjoy a money warehouse or you can hope for a return on your investment. You can't usually have both. The Fed, however, by backing up this fractional-reserve system with a promise of endless bailouts and money creation, attempts to keep the illusion going.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Drawing, Perfect

  "End the Fed". Book by Ron Paul (pp. 17-18), September 16, 2009.

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• He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

  Dizzy Dean

  Wall, Balls, Legs

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• A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart.

  Dan Millman

  Responsibility, Warrior, Men

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• When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Bells, Truck

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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