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• I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

  David Spade

  Fighting, Guy, West Coast

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

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• From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.

  Dax Shepard

  Kids, Past, Eight

  "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.

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• We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

  Mary McDonnell

  Alive, Just Being, Moments

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

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• I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

  Rose Leslie

  Sports, Couple, Taken

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• There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Angel, Shows, Show Business

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• I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

  Bill Cowher

  Hard Work, Challenges, Coaching

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• I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

  Tom Noonan

  Thinking, Play, Going Away

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

  Denis Leary

  Mother, Jobs, Dad

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.98, Penguin

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• Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

  Don King

  Struggle, Reality, Errors

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• If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

  Don King

  Boxing, Water, Cash

  "Don King sounds off on boxing". "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2002.

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

  Doris Roberts

  Lying, Humor, Choices

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• Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

  Kylie Minogue

  Mean, Australia, Stressed

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• So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

  Michael C. Hall

  Nice, Years, Half

  "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2002.

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• You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2015

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• Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.

  Joey Ramone

  Hair, Weight, Wells

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• I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Hard Work, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Tyrants, Mad

  YouTube Chanel "Uncle Spellbinder"/ "Bill Maher - New Rules [Noah's Ark, God and Religion]", www.youtube.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow
  stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth,
  swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling,
  somewhere else it gets back up.

  Bob Hicok

  Fall, Air, Somewhere Else

  Bob Hicok (2007). “This clumsy living”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• Get knocked down. Get back up. Always be a fighter. Don't be afraid of the punch. Don't be afraid of getting back up. Be afraid of giving up.

  Maria Kanellis

  Giving Up, Getting Back Up, Fighter

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• I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

  Jermichael Finley

  Packers, Nations, Hard

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• I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Taken, Athlete

  "Shawn Johnson training for 2012". Interview with Amy Van Deusen, www.espn.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Texas, Years, Missing

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

  Billy Corgan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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