Comeback Quotes - Page 4

• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

  John Pople

  Years, Fundamentals, Pittsburgh

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• Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.

  Will Hermes

  Hero, Dark, Voice

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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• Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

  Lionel Blue

  Insult, Discrimination, Luther

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• Every setback has a major comeback.

  Russell Wilson

  Majors, Setback

  Russell Wilson @DangeRussWilson, twitter.com. February 2, 2015.

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• My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Tape

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Sports, Perspective, Ease

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• Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

  Audrey Meadows

  Return, World, Resurrection

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• I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  Robert Purvis

  Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

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• I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Children, Reading, Wanted

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• The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Science, Space, Clerks

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Important, Remember, Nurturing

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• The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

  Paul Prudhomme

  People, Insult, Restaurants

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• To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Coincidence, Consciousness, Infinite

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• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Unique, Doubt, Literature

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• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Opinion, Insult

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• Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

  Dominique Swain

  Thinking, People, Might

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• I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Character, Trying, Grows

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• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Civilization, Insult, Compromise

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• People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Thinking, People, Return

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• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Pouring, Insult, Hail

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• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  Haim Ginott

  Insult, Instant, Collections

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• This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

  Will Arnett

  Pilots, Insult

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• To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Insult

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life".

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