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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
- Dennis C. Blair
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Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.
- Gideon Raff
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My dad is a Type 1 diabetic. I grew up in a household where we were really conscious about cutting back on sugar because we had to for his health.
- Brooklyn Decker
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I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.
- Boyd Holbrook
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People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.
- Demian Maia
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
- Abdullah II of Jordan
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But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool. And when I look back now I realise I lost something mentally as a player, by allowing that to happen.
- Rickie Lambert
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Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
- Sachin Tendulkar
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On October 20, 2012 - 17 months and two days after I was diagnosed with that rare form of bone cancer - I stepped back into the ring at the Barclays Center to fight Josh Luteran. He didn't make it out of the first round. Just 1:13 in, it was over. Knockout. I was back.
- Daniel Jacobs
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That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it's in the back of my mind. It's important to get out at the right time.
- Carl Frampton
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
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We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.
- Adam Lallana
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The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
- Verne Troyer
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With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
- Joe Strummer
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I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.
- Boy George
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That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
- Claudette Colvin
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When I wasn't in the band, Korn management hit me up every year or two asking me to rejoin. I would do book signings, and they would send someone to say, 'Hey, it would be cool to have you back one day.'
- Brian Welch
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Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
- Monica Lewinsky
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
- Aaron Stanford
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If someone criticizes me, I strike back.
- Romario
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In practice, there is no consequence. If you miss a ball, you just pick up another ball and serve again, or you come back the next day and play. In the matches, every point has got a consequence. If you lose, you don't come back the next day and play.
- Kyle Edmund
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Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
- Ben Gibbard
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When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but had to go to junior college first to get my GPA up. I did a half-year of junior college, then dropped out and had my daughter. College was always an opportunity to go back. But she, my daughter, was my support. I gave up everything for her.
- Deontay Wilder
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Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
- Mark Dayton
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I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
- Sebastian Bach
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The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
- Roddy Doyle
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I look back to a happy childhood.
- Catherine Helen Spence
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I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.
- Daniel Wu
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I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and matte paintings. I started doing matte paintings professionally back before the computer, sort of painting on glass.
- Robert Stromberg
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I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.
- Jeff Perry
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
- Amartya Sen
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Most beginners who have learned the point system will only consider a sacrifice if it leads directly to checkmate or if the material can be won back by force. A Grandmaster, though, will frequently sacrifice for less tangible compensation, such as a lead in development or a superior pawn structure.
- Daniel Naroditsky
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We need very specific equipment to train for World's Strongest Man and it's very hard to find this equipment in a normal gym. That's why I have my own gym back in Iceland.
- Hafthor Bjornsson
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I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
- Deion Sanders
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Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
- Huey Lewis
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Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
- Zakk Wylde
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I think back to my upbringing and the social skills I learned, the life lessons and friends I made because I was fortunate enough to play, and how that impacted me and gave me self confidence.
- Jesse Palmer
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I'm never looking for excuses. However, you need to get in a rhythm to be effective at QB on a consistent basis. So being pulled from a game and then inserted back in won't always be beneficial or enhance your performance level.
- Jesse Palmer
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I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.
- John Skipper
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I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!
- Catherine Bell
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
- Sam Heughan
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I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
- Ledisi
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I would love to retire a City player and I have my fingers crossed it is something that can still happen. When I did leave in 2005, I broke down crying on the way to sign for Chelsea, but back then, we needed the money my sale brought in.
- Shaun Wright-Phillips
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As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
- John Wells
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The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.
- Ricky Whittle
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When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
- Steve Largent
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Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
- Jerry Stiller
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Like, back in Albania, all my cousins sing, they play the drums, they play guitar, it's like... a thing!
- Ava Max
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You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.
- Mark Shand
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When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.
- Jason Isaacs
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I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
- Tim Roth
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I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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I thought the Little League fields were big. You look back now, and its obviously the smallest field you can play on.
- Cody Bellinger
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As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.
- Cody Bellinger
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Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel the mess that is life - and who are bigger messes than artists?
- Kandi Burruss
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I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base - like San Antonio, Minneapolis - those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.
- Bret Hart
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My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
- William T. Vollmann
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
- Olivia Wilde
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The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
- Lupita Nyong'o
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
- Hugh Jackman
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
- Barbara Olson
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When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
- Phoebe Philo
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Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
- James Altucher
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No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
- Sheryl Swoopes
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Around six years back, I turned vegetarian for health reasons. This doesn't mean I feel left out. I can try grass if you put some tabasco sauce on it.
- Gurpreet Ghuggi
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I was sort of always the class clown, but I think that was confusing for my teachers because I had the grades to back it up. I would be finished with assignments and goof off, because I'm done. And so, it would be like, 'Oh, she has like a 4.2 GPA, but she's also just like walking around the halls with the hall pass and bothering other students.'
- Natasha Rothwell
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I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.
- Billy Collins
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Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.
- Raul Julia
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It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'
- Roscoe Mitchell
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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
- Ellsworth Huntington
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I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.
- Tom Jones
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Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.
- Elvis Costello
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To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.
- Joe Simon
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
- Darren Aronofsky
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Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I've done a lot of therapy and it's great to be back on the horse.
- Roland Orzabal
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There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
- Tyler Joseph
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We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.
- Tyler Joseph
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
- Dak Prescott
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What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.
- Francis Spufford
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I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
- Francis Spufford
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I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
- Richard Harris
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Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
- Anderson Silva
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I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.
- Preity Zinta
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I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
- Betty Hill
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It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.
- Bill Scott
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I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
- Andy Gibb
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I think our greatest moments of pain can be our greatest chance to grow in our faith and to share it and hopefully bring someone else back from the brink.
- Shannon Bream
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My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.
- Sascha Radetsky
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I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.
- Phoebe Bridgers
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There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
- Douglas Feith
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I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.
- Timothy Spall
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I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. It's always my place to come back and feel normal again.
- Alana Blanchard
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I've scrubbed many, many landmarks. I scrubbed the Kremlin back in '98. We had a mandatory-toothbrushing parade; we had the text of the mandatory-toothbrush law translated into Russian. And we had like 30 Russians; we had musicians; we had the giant toothbrushes. The police came and told us to stop, and we stopped.
- Vermin Supreme
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I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
- Martin Milner
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Whatever it is that I do, it's a lot easier for me to accomplish it when I truly feel the need for it. Sometimes you forget. But all you have to do is stop, re-think, and put it all back into perspective.
- Rose
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The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty - but I'm happy for that.
- Marko Arnautovic
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You'd be surprised how many times I've had to have that conversation with heads of state who want to say to me, 'Well, look, I know you can have some influence on the president. I need you to go back and tell him this.'
- Rex Tillerson
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The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
- Gerard Malanga
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