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I always go backwards when I am backing up. -- Charles Portis
I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats. -- Jaco Pastorius
People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. -- James Caan
When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. -- Jodi Picoult
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third. -- Carl Erskine
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. -- Alan Bean
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. -- Dan Millman
If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
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
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 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
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart. -- Dan Millman
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
MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up. -- Charles Portis
Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed. -- Linda Chavez
Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother. -- Colin Greenwood
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats. -- Jaco Pastorius
Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out. -- Sandra Bernhard
Most computer users don't think about backing up their software until the day they lose it -- Don Rittner
I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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
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
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
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
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

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