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storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads. -- Walt Whitman
I've got a crush on my backing singer. -- Amy Winehouse
People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. -- James Caan
Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out. -- Sandra Bernhard
I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career. -- Mary Kom
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone. -- Morgan Wootten
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives. -- Terry Brooks
I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work. -- Deepika Padukone
Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution. -- T.I.
Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix. -- Mark Webber
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. -- Richard Branson
I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected. -- Anthony Braxton
Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue. -- Walter Martin
I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer. -- Robbie Williams
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God. -- Ray Comfort
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. -- C. S. Lewis
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. -- John Lee Hooker
Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything. -- Suzy Menkes
The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. -- Elizabeth Warren
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain. -- Robert Winston
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. -- David Bowie
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses. -- Brian Molko
I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with. -- Sxip Shirey
Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem. -- Elliott Abrams
I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual. -- Alan Greenspan
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!' -- Magic Johnson
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play. -- Feist
backing down can become a way of life -- Oliver James
Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing... -- Kanye West
I always go backwards when I am backing up. -- Charles Portis
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear. -- Rex Stout
I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats. -- Jaco Pastorius
I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game. -- Gautam Gambhir
We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down. -- Julian Fantino
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. -- Carrie Fisher
If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke? -- Rob Schwimmer
I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down. -- Sanjay Gupta
Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything -- Saul Bellow
I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this. -- Richelle Mead
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen
Most computer users don't think about backing up their software until the day they lose it -- Don Rittner
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all. -- Saul Bellow
When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. -- Jodi Picoult
We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing. -- Ger Duany
I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third. -- Carl Erskine
Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc. -- Anne Rice
I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing. -- Beyonce Knowles
Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly. -- Edward Carpenter
A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. -- Ruth Gordon
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. -- Alan Bean
A horse's hindquarters appeared at the door, the horse backing slowly down a rampBuckwheat!" Emily squealedYou bringed my horsie!" -- Pamela Clare
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. -- D.T. Suzuki
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. -- Lisa Hannigan
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. -- Dan Millman
I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around, -- John McCain
I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain. -- Tommy Cooper
I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself. -- Melanie Brown
If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying -- Lee Goldberg
I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people. -- Sadiq Khan
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage. -- Lefty Gomez
It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region. -- Joe Biden
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. -- Bela Kun
I didn't think I was the right person to do that job but I do think Michael Gove is and that's why I'm backing him. -- Nicky Morgan
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. -- Lee Iacocca
He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall. -- Dizzy Dean
In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating. -- Randal Marlin
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. -- Henry Flynt
If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people. -- Richard Gere
Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that. -- Meredith Brooks
You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. It was awesome she was backing me up and defending me. -- Gabby Douglas
At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it. -- John Caudwell
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm. -- Bill Gates
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves. -- James Bryant Conant
All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn. -- Christopher Titus
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like. -- Cat Stevens
If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER. -- Dave Barry
While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable. -- Bernie Sanders
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree. -- Shawn Amos
In 2010 and 2012, I won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd Congressional District on the program 'Save NASA Impeach Obama,' without any organizational or financial backing from the party. -- Kesha Rogers
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience. -- Agnes Repplier
Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break. -- Vonda Shepard
Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really. -- Thighpaulsandra
He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager) -- Stuart Pearce
I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb. -- Miranda Cosgrove
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female. -- Geena Davis
When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing. -- Stephen Mangan
I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world. -- Clare Short
Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics, cultural exchange and dialogue have become more and more problematic. -- Mohammad Marandi
Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money. -- Stephen Sondheim
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. -- Steven Spielberg
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one. -- Peter MacKay
I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down. -- Darryl Worley
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour. -- Jay Kay

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