Backup Quotes

• I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

  Gwen Stefani

  Forever, Realistic, Performing

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• Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Children, Weather, Singing

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• So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

  Bill Cowher

  Cousin, Player, May

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Always have a backup plan.

  Mila Kunis

  Plans, Backup Plan

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• Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Mirrors

  Linux-kernel Mailing List, www.webcitation.org. July 20, 1996.

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• The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They’re always at the back of your mind. They’re what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what.

  Miley Cyrus

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• Me as a backup center? Hell no.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Hell

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• I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

  Avery Johnson

  Player, Thinking, Nba

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [...] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Believe, People, Empowering

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• My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Mirrors

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• I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.

  Ken Jeong

  People, Giving, Three

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. August 14, 2009.

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• A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Blow

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.

  Keshia Chante

  Goal, Focus, Needs

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• Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Dancer, Musician, Respectable

  "Mike Birbiglia Talks About 'I'm In The Future Also' Tour". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 07, 2009.

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• When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

  Amy Dickinson

  Lonely, Parent, Mothering

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• nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

  Anne Applebaum

  War, Thinking, August

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• The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Pain, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Jobs, School, College

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• What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew

  Eamon

  Cat, Hands, Forever

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• This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Media, Presidential

  Source: time.com

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• You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup.

  Doug Benson

  Important, Trying, Cop

  "Comedy: The blunt Doug Benson". Interview with Brent Owen, www.leoweekly.com. August 28, 2013.

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• The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

  Sharon Jones

  Baby, Teenager, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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