Back Burner Quotes

• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  Martha Reeves

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Dream, Impossible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.

  Kate Bosworth

  Challenges, Deals

  "Q&A: Kate Bosworth on Horse Riding, Jack Kerouac, Marriage & James Franco". Interview with R. Kurt Osenlund, www.esquire.com. November 4, 2013.

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• Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Insecurity, Doubt, Pandora's Box

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• Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

  Criss Jami

  Brain, May, Cooks

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, People, Care

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.

  Nicki Minaj

  Mother, Dream, Moving

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hot, Pot, Allowing

  Dr Charles R Swindoll (1982). “Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back”

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• [ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

  Whit Stillman

  Years, People, Projects

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.

  Michael Yates

  Struggle, Past, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

  Young Jeezy

  Play, Might, Individual

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• And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

  Vince Gill

  Father, Divorce, Passing Away

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• I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Fall, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

  Theodore White

  Kitchen, May, Chef

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• My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Thinking, Law, Careers

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• With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

  Debby Ryan

  Years, Three, Littles

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• My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Years, Ideas, Shows

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• When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Kids, Giving

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• When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.

  Vince Gill

  People, Focus, Kind

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• Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

  Gina Barreca

  Preparation, Important, Example

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