Backing Quotes

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I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

- John Wayne

On backing Mel Gibson after his 2006 anti-Semitic comments to a cop while drunk: Is he an anti-Semite? Absolutely not. But, it`s no secret that he has always fought a terrible battle with alcoholism. (Mel) was a shining example of how low you can go when you are young and still pull yourself up. He took his recovery very seriously, which is why I know he is strong enough to get through this now.

- Jodie Foster

(Talking about ABBA`s signature song Dancing Queen): I loved the song from the very beginning. Coming back from the studio, Benny played the backing track to me. It was so beautiful that I started to cry. I mean, even without lyrics or voices on it, it was outstanding.

- Anni-Frid Lyngstad

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she`s a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

- Geena Davis

I`m very worried about what`s going on in the world at the moment because we have this Napoleonic president; by Napoleonic I mean he`s a man who just seems to need to search himself. It doesn`t make sense. I don`t have any love lost on Saddam Hussein. If he needs to be removed from office, fine. You have to find the right way to do it, but going to war, nah, with the people. To do what. What is the real reason? Because he`s harboring weapons of mass destruction? So it is with North Korea. Why are we acting to acquiesce to this? We do not need the Iraqi oil. We have Kuwait oil. It`s the same pool. That`s why Kuwait`s there. That`s why Kuwait was set up. You think that country could exist there without somebody backing it? We`re talking about a piece of Iraq. So, we keep this. That`s my noise. I am terribly upset about the whole thing.

- Morgan Freeman

Smut, if it`s really smut, there`s nothing backing it up. It`s the easy way out.

- Sandra Bernhard

I`m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

- David Bowie

Despite the backing of the PC industry`s two biggest titans (Microsoft and Intel), it looks as if HD DVD`s days are numbered,

- Cliff Edwards

On losing the audience of `Star Trek: Enterprise`: "I don`t know exactly when they tuned out, but they did, obviously, somewhere along season one or two. We had a great season last year with the Xindi storyline and we still weren`t able to get them back. For network shows, it doesn`t seem particularly important for them to publicize the science fiction genre, or it wasn`t that important for (UPN) to publicize our show. They sort of let that go and I don`t think we had a lot of momentum in terms of backing from the network. But they have their own concerns. So I think it was a combination of things. I think different camps weren`t in sync at the right time to draw in people."

- Connor Trinneer

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

- James Young

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it`s difficult to find backing for them.

- Marc Singer

I was wondering why they stopped the fight. I was the one pushing the action, backing him into the ropes. I definitely want a rematch. Let`s see what he says.

- Fernando Vargas

I`m tired of being around men all the time. I`m going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I`ll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

- Brian Molko

(NHL contraction would be fine if) mediocre European players ... typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not backing anything up.

- Jeremy Roenick

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We`ve gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

- Peter MacKay

A man came up and tried to grab my arm, so I kept backing up and he was messing with the other safeties and he threw a rock and the kid has a mark on his chest.

- Deanna Miller

Right now, we need qualifying donations, ... We don`t want people backing up a dump truck; there is a limit to what we will accept.

- Frank Kelly

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

- Terry Brooks

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

- Alan Bean

It looked like a pretty good situation, ... I don`t know if I`m going to be a backup. I don`t know if I`m going to be backing up a backup. I don`t know if I`m going to be a starter.

- Jim Moore

It is not clear from the evidence that Mr. Berarducci was doing anything more than backing up his truck to avoid a continued confrontation with Mr. Kimberly, which, it should be noted, Mr. Kimberly had initiated and in which he persisted by approaching Mr. Berarducci`s truck a second time, ... There is not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that it was Mr. Berarducci`s intent to harass, annoy, or alarm Mr. Kimberly.

- John Peck

What we`re seeing is the foreign market backing off.

- Don Wilson

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

- Allison McGeer

We have difficulty backing out of our driveway.

- Angela Leisure

The president has said for quite a while now that we support European diplomacy, and we`ve been giving full backing to that effort. In the interview with Israeli radio, he was merely reiterating the government`s position. Our policy hasn`t changed.

- Ann Fisher

Gary`s an interesting guy. I like Gary, he`s very different, ... All his antics and his talking, you have to admire him for backing it up. He has an uncanny ability to do it when it counts. Don`t try to figure him out '” he`s like Dennis Rodman, without the tattoos.

- Ann Godesky

I think this is a solid group with a solid developer. I think they have strong financial backing.

- Anne McCormack

(Amid that shared misery, Salazar formed a bond with his fellows, thugs though many of them were.) In your house you can kick the dog, ... But if I kick your dog, that`s a different story. Once you leave the Foreign Legion gates, every man with a kepi blanc is your brother, without question. I can rest assured that if I was ever in any trouble in the south of France there`d be about 20 legionnaires backing me up. And to this day if I see a legionnaire on the street, he`s my brother.

- Arjun Narsingh

We have some things in our passing game that might fit one guy better. A short-yardage situation might fit better for a certain guy. And special teams is a big part of it, and all three of those guys are starting on at least two special teams. So we`ll just see where we go from here. But we`re in a great position. Last year, we had Howard Jackson, and Matt was backing him up with Jimmy Smith. This year I think we`ve got three threats, as opposed to just one.

- Arnaud Clement

I think the reason that the U.S. would not want to be seen to be backing off from the strong-dollar policy is that it gives the markets the license to sell the dollar. And I think that obviously if we see a weakening economy and a weakening currency, that poses all sorts of problems for the administration and for the Fed.

- Austin Yount

He has to be careful doing that backing up, ... He got caught against Green Bay. If you leave the pocket too early and take off and run that`s not necessarily a bad thing because he`s got good running ability. He just has to be smart about it. Get out of bounds or slide.

- Barbara Wagner

We`re getting super radly awesome close to being done. We finally finished backing vocals and they came out totally 100% neat. I made plenty of super cool faces while I was singing, like this one where I had my eyes all clenched tight and then I hit this high note and looked up to the sky and slowly raised my fist like Whitney Houston in "I Will Always Love You". Another time, I ate all the cheese bagels and Adam was mad. In other news, we had a photo shoot today for the album artwork in this old abandoned building. Here`s what happened to me there: I stepped on a dead mouse, sat in a stinky pigeon nest, and set my glasses down in crack head puke.

- Jade Puget