Backbone Quotes
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
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We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.
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America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
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I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.
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Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.
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America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
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We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
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A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.
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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.
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I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the backbone of the economy. These workers didn't reap the benefit of that system.
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Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
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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- ???
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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.
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A drummer is usually like the backbone.
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The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
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You see that in his foreign policy Barack Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
