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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance. -- Mike Birbiglia
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
Always have a backup plan. -- Mila Kunis
For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary. -- Laurieann Gibson
I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever. -- Gwen Stefani
I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable. -- Patti Davis
The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails. -- Ralph Nader
You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed, -- Elizabeth Holmes
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net. -- Amy Dickinson
Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds
It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up. -- Bill Parcells
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
Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results. -- Keshia Chante
Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine. -- Jade Hassoune
You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup. -- Doug Benson
What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew -- Eamon
A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan. -- Seth Godin
When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years. -- Brandi Carlile
It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better. -- Jeremy Roenick
Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence. -- Amory Lovins
Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head -- Eddie Van Halen
What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured. -- Corinne Maier
nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes. -- Anne Applebaum
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape. -- Aaron Rodgers
Most computers today have built in backup software. -- Barton Gellman
I don't think that I've ever been a backup. -- Joe Namath
I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing. -- Jamaica Kincaid
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake! -- Haley Webb
And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight. -- Umberto Guidoni
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat. -- Henry Cavill
As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes. -- Stephen Rodrick
On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick. -- Britt Robertson
Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season. -- Stephen Rodrick
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings. -- Chantal Kreviazuk
It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup. -- Matt Hasselbeck
It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known. -- Robert Atkins
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale. -- Kurt Busiek
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
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
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files. -- Barton Gellman
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson! -- Dylan Lauren
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
Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery. -- Virginia Postrel
I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.' -- Casey Nicholaw
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission. -- William Stone
Me as a backup center? Hell no. -- Dikembe Mutombo
It can't hurt to have a backup. -- Mallory Ortberg
Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks. -- Roberto Luongo
Always have a backup plan in case you fail. Prepare for another business. -- Ehab Atalla
Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose. -- Bob Goff
There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB. -- Verne Lundquist
The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses. -- Katie McGrath
If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one. -- Jack Valenti
Shapeshifter parenting motto"?if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear. -- Ilona Andrews
Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork! -- Vince McMahon
You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup. -- Sara Levine
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
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
Look, I want to say,The worst thing you can imagine has alreadyZipped up its coat and is heading backUp the road to wherever it came from. -- Tracy K. Smith
But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone. -- Mitch Albom
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
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