Back When Quotes

• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Editors, San Francisco

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Doe, Body

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

  Bobby Vee

  Girl, Growing Up, Dolls

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• Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Strong, War

  Merle Haggard (2002). “Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics”, p.55, Hal Leonard Corporation

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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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• I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

  Peter Diamandis

  Organization, Missions, Demoralized

  "Prof. Hawking Goes Weightless - The True Story" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

  Erika Christensen

  Grandmother, Balls, Littles

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• I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

  Don Cheadle

  Rapper, Ideas, Records

  Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

  Olivia Colman

  Children, Dark, Offering

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• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

  Bram Cohen

  Father, School, Class

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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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• Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

  George Harrison

  Long, Income, Politics

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• The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Heard

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• People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  People, Positive Energy, Looks

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

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Way, Remember

  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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• Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Grieving, Voice, Leader

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• Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Economy

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.

  Ray William Johnson

  Kids, Rocks, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tom Paxton

  Self, Way, My Own

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  Magnus

  Kids, Cowboy, Thinking

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• I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, People, Car

  "Have an Ice Day: A Guided Tour of L.A. Freeways from Ice Cube". Interview with John Pearley Huffman, blog.caranddriver.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

  David Sanborn

  Real, Kids, Player

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

  Cliff Burton

  Confused, Crazy, Looks

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