Way Back When Quotes

• I think the worst professional advice I've received... I feel I've been lucky in that I've gotten a lot of wonderful guidance, but I remember - and I would never do this to someone - I remember going into a manager's office, the manager I had in New York, and this was way back when. And she said to me, immediately, "You should never wear striped T-shirts. You look much bigger than you are."

  June Diane Raphael

  New York, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Writing, Home

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.

  William Kristol

  Years, Wings, People

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Wall, Military, Ukraine

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Sometimes people look at our covers and say, "That looks just like that other cover." I say, "And?" It reminds them of a cover from way back when. If you know the cover, then pull it out and compare it. I don't care. It's supposed to bring back memories.

  Sharon Jones

  Memories, People, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of my Miss America judges called me a "God-clutcher" way back when because I spoke about my faith being an important part of my life during my interview.

  Gretchen Carlson

  America, Judging, Missing

  Source: frankviola.org

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• I follow the baseball team on the Internet more than I do the football team. Generally you can get a Nebraska game anywhere. Before I started doing big arenas and stuff and had a tour bus when I was just working comedy clubs way back when I would always listen to the games in my hotel room on the Internet.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Baseball, Football, Team

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

  Dwight Howard

  People, Back When, Way

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

  John Carpenter

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do.

  Joan Rivers

  Stars, Children, Hate

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.23, Penguin

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• I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).

  Yoko Shimomura

  Teacher, Talking, Games

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• Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and go on a world tour'. And he kept on saying 'It's not the right time'. But I never thought that my wish will be fulfilled in such a grand way and that we will be part of the team as man and wife.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Team, Men, Wife

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• I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Fans, Back When

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Gimme some of that you and me,
  Some of that way back when,
  A little bit of wild and free
  I wanna feel that again

  Jason Aldean

  Country, Song, Wild And Free

  Song: Feel That Again, Album: Night Train, 2012

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• I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Simple, Thinking

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• Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Hands, Guy, Brain

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• If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

  Lara Stone

  Thinking, Clothes, Skins

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

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• Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Back When, Way

  "Is That Madonna Or Miley Cyrus In This Throwback Photo?" by John Walker, www.mtv.com. October 13, 2014.

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• I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

  Dave Eggers

  Morning, News, Back When

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

  Bootsy Collins

  Play, Cartoon, Trying

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• The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when -
  listen to him Now!

  Tom Paxton

  Self, Back When, Way

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• I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Back When, Way

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.

  John Lennon

  Hurt, Back When, Way

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