Back When Quotes - Page 6

• But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

  Bootsy Collins

  Play, Cartoon, Trying

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• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

  Bram Cohen

  Father, School, Class

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• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

  Olivia Colman

  Children, Dark, Offering

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• I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

  Don Cheadle

  Rapper, Ideas, Records

  Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

  Erika Christensen

  Grandmother, Balls, Littles

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• I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

  Peter Diamandis

  Organization, Missions, Demoralized

  "Prof. Hawking Goes Weightless - The True Story" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Strong, War

  Merle Haggard (2002). “Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics”, p.55, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

  Bobby Vee

  Girl, Growing Up, Dolls

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• A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Doe, Body

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

  George Harrison

  Long, Income, Politics

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• The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Heard

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• I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

  David Sanborn

  Real, Kids, Player

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  People, Positive Energy, Looks

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• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Editors, San Francisco

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.

  Paul Westerberg

  Couple, School, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

  Michael Sandel

  Design, Political, Way

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.

  Derrick Rose

  Mom, Halloween, People

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• I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

  Lindsay Pearce

  Events, Six Months, Hearing

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  Magnus

  Kids, Cowboy, Thinking

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• Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when -
  listen to him Now!

  Tom Paxton

  Self, Way, My Own

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• I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.

  Ray William Johnson

  Kids, Rocks, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Economy

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Grieving, Voice, Leader

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