Backup Quotes - Page 3

• I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Keys, Guy, Spotlight

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 27, 2014

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• In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

  Dennis Quaid

  Thinking, Color, Pilots

  "Dennis Quaid Interview - THE EXPRESS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 7, 2008.

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• Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.

  Lynn Mabry

  Voice, Connections, Singers

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• If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

  Jack Valenti

  Dvds, Want, Copies

  "DVD-copy program tweaked after court order", CNN.com, February 23, 2004.

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• They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there isn't any supporter backup. If you make a mistake as a plumber, you know, you fix it and everything goes on or you get sued. But if you make a mistake as a cop, you are more infamous than Jesse James, everything's over.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Jobs, Mistake, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

  John Katzman

  Team, Kids, Son

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• My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

  Kay Panabaker

  Jobs, Giving Up, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Want, Singers, Used

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

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• I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

  Joe Namath

  Thinking

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• LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements of the server environments of midrange to the enterprise class.

  Sean Paul

  Technology, Class, Needs

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• If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

  Heidi Baker

  Want, Hopeless, Missions

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.159, Charisma Media

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• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  Matt Smith

  Smart, Silly, Gun

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("The Pandorica Opens", 2010), (2005- ).

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• I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

  Julianna Margulies

  School, Sleep, Law

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• Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Angle, Dangerous

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• I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stars, Couple, Fun

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• Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

  Roberto Luongo

  Hockey, Nhl, Goalies

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• They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Summer, School, Holiday

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Body, Motto

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• What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Dancer, World

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?

  Tina St. John

  Needs, Bags, Littles

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• A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.

  Malorie Blackman

  Mean, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

  Ally Carter

  Simple, Voice, Joy

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• Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Spiritual, Recovery, Data

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• There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

  Verne Lundquist

  Football, Form

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• It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

  Angela Lansbury

  World, Singers, Choir

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