Backbone Quotes - Page 7

• Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Kids, Hard Times, Comfort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Race, Civilization

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.36, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

  Sally Jenkins

  Sports, Running, College

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• Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Cancer, Order, Civilized

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• As a songwriter, the minute you start having sex, you can totally see the difference in the writing. You become an adult - that's kind of the whole backbone of it, really, your identity as a person and what sex means to you.

  Nick Jonas

  Sex, Writing, Mean

  "Nick Jonas wrote songs differently after sex". www.star2.com. September 4, 2016.

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• You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

  Nat Hentoff

  Foreign Policy, Policy, Barack

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Love You, Purpose

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• Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Small Business, Economy

  "Michele Bachmann Speaks To NPR". Interview with Mara Liasson, www.npr.org. June 29, 2011.

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• I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Feet, Two

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• I was able to study 50 years of leadership theory and practicum in my master's program at Seton Hall, and it has provided the backbone of the knowledge we use every day. My undergraduate work was in journalism, and my early work as a newspaper reporter taught me how to research, write, and rewrite.

  Adrian Gostick

  Writing, Study, Journalism

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Two, Clouds

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???

  Bruce Sterling

  Clouds, Ubiquity, Information

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• Coral reefs are the backbone for the entire ocean. They are the nursery for the ocean. About a quarter of all marine life in the ocean spends part of its lifecycle on a coral reef. And there are about a billion or so people that depend on coral reefs for fish for their food, for protein.

  Jeff Orlowski

  Ocean, Marine, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm really sensitive to the beginning of a motif or a phrase or something that's kind of the backbone or becomes kind of the spine that you grow muscle tissue onto. You know from that, if you have that good beginning, it's like everything that grows off it often has potential. Maybe I'm good at that early bit of recognition of pieces of potential. I'm not sure.

  Tim Hecker

  Recognition, Kind, Sensitive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of struggling middle-class families and close the egregious tax loopholes that have exploded over the last eight years. My plan eliminates capital gains taxes entirely for the small businesses and start-ups that are the backbone of our economy, as opposed to John McCain's plan, which would tax these businesses. John McCain is running to serve out a third Bush term. But the truth is, when it comes to taxes, that's not being fair to George Bush.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Struggle, Cutting

  "Countdown" with Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. June 10, 2008.

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan

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• My job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level.

  Tom Morello

  Struggle, Fighting, Justice

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

  Warren Buffett

  Purpose, Making Money, Products

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• Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

  John Piper

  Christian, Heart, Steel

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• McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Chocolate, Mckinley, Eclairs

  Theodore Roosevelt (1997). “The Rough Riders”, Taylor Pub

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• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Work, Hero

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• I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

  Debbie Gibson

  Nice, Thinking, Freak

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• I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Wall, Reading

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.93, Penguin

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• Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Self, Authority, Possession

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