Backbone Quotes - Page 8

• If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Mean, People, Able

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Heart, Winter, Hands

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• To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Strong, Guitar

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• This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Games, Demand

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• I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

  Bill Pullman

  Brother, Wife, Operations

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

  Bill Murray

  Boys, Advice, Matter

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  College, Community, Leader

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

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• If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

  Edward Snowden

  Cutting, Impact, Ties

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Politics, Clinton, Charm

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• If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

  Kate Winslet

  Careers, Actors, Growing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 2000.

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• Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Believe, Done

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• Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Strong, Religion, Liberty

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• I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

  Alan Ball

  Strong, Heart, Anxiety

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• To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Home, Wind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.281, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

  John Oliver

  Funny, Democracy, Campaigns

  "John Oliver’s Campaign Ad Formula: F.L.A.G.S". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fear, Fall, Feelings

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread Locks #1”, p.14, Penguin

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• ~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Pain, Struggle

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• The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

  Tommy Douglas

  Government, Should Have, Political

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• Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

  Louis L'Amour

  Strong, Book, Civilization

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• Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.

  Abbi Glines

  Real, Moving, Son

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• I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.

  Julie Klassen

  Children, Home, Nursing

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• A vocation is the backbone of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vocation, Life And Living

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• It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, America, Easy

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

  Calvin Cheng

  Skins, Goes On, Loser

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• When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.

  Edward Snowden

  Creating, Warfare, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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