Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4326 authors
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is…
— Alfred Jarry
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Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far…
— Rod Laver
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I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids…
— Chris Evert
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The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development.…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the…
— Gillian Flynn
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Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history
— Dinesh D'Souza
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Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force…
— Francisco Franco
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For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving…
— Guru Nanak
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
— Norman Parkinson
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force.…
— Jimmy Page
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Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it…
— Colson Whitehead
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
— Twyla Tharp
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Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee…
— Russ Feingold
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What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, [Hinckley] sounded uncertain, `I don't know that we teach it. I…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
— Bill Gates
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When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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