Behind Quotes
6713 Behind quotes by 4130 unique authors
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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or…
— Joseph Stalin
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In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a…
— Jon Stewart
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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used,…
— David Knopfler
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When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.
— Sheridan Smith
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Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right…
— Hosni Mubarak
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You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much
— Betty Friedan
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The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The coming of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.
— Philip K. Dick
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The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially…
— Jerzy Grotowski
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.
— Fred Ross
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Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover…
— Ingmar Bergman
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I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s behind what you’re looking…
— Charles Wright
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I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to…
— John Mulaney
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If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to…
— Tim Harford
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We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies…
— Wernher von Braun
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The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to…
— Andrew Card
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I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.
— Anthony Jeselnik
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I love the mystery behind things.
— Janelle Monae
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a…
— Ramakrishna
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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing…
— Alexander Herzen
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