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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire
Life
Funny
You
Three
Bone
Backbone
Saint Patrick's Day
Succeed
Things
Need
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
Aerin Lauder
Mom
Me
Strong
Mother
Everything
Backbone
Kind
She
Always
Been
Friend
Really
Keeps
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
New Year's
Man
Soul
Eyes
Will
Made
Year
Nothing
Starts
Unless
Backbone
Ears
Would
Object
About
He
New
Feet
Particular
Make
New Eyes
Effective
Man-Made
New Year
Nose
Should
Certainly
Things
Resolutions
Small business is the backbone of America.
Chuck Fleischmann
Business
Backbone
Small
Small Business
America
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry Pratchett
Family
Getting Older
Care
Will
Older
Society
Baby
Baby Boomers
Relationships
Backbone
Range
Boomers
Those
Run
Stay
Rely
Firing
Longer
Dementia
Readily
How
Provided
Getting
Stable
Cope
Right
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
John Perry Barlow
Waiting
Party
Other
Backbone
Moral
One Party
Moral Compass
Until
Gets
Just
Compass
Actually
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
Man
Will
Men
Backbone
Thousand
One-Man
More
Individual
Mere
Than
Activity
Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.
Mother Angelica
Life
Family
Giving
Other
Backbone
Entails
Mutual
Proper
Sharing
Failures
Family Life
Dependent
Mankind
Successes
Use
Each
Receiving
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki
Truth
People
Backbone
Say
Tell
Having
Toughness
Bully
Lot
Afraid
Being
Where
Play
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.
John Lewis
Work
You
Courage
Walk
Wind
Down
Live
Our
Backbone
Way
Say
Out
Must
See
About
Something
Part
Fair
House
Effort
Get
Same
Going
Just
Hold
Not Fair
Little
Work Out
Right
The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
Bernard Sumner
Band
Backbone
Drummer
Underrated
Real
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
Ida B. Wells
Backbone
Thus
South
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Bill Rancic
You
Business
Courage
Innovation
First
Big
Ownership
Think
Backbone
Small
Small Business
Go
Go For It
Big Fan
American
Fan
Successful
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
Henry Rollins
Do The Right Thing
Backbone
Right Thing
Policy
Foreign
Leave
Foreign Policy
America
Afghanistan
Lacks
The Right Thing
Which
Right
Thing
Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
Brian Schweitzer
Government
Good
Good Ideas
Backbone
Ideas
Good Government
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.
Kenny Guinn
Backbone
Nevada
Economy
Gaming
My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Health
Great
Strong
Hero
Parents
Incredible
Backbone
Moral
He
Been
Handsome
Ethical
Luckier
Dad
Now
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
Anne Tyler
Own
Think
Enough
Backbone
Say
Characters
Given
Supernatural
Voices
Well
Hear
Texture
Behold
Just
Want
Then
Stand
Actually
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
Anthony Foxx
Interstate
Backbone
System
Has-Been
Highway
Since
Been
Tax
Inception
Transportation
Gas
General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love.
Anthony Scaramucci
Love
Man
Somebody
Backbone
Would
General
Like
Trump
I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.
Austin Aries
Me
Backbone
Make
Makes
Biggest
Heel
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls
Life
Faith
Strength
Man
My Life
Important
Difficult
Backbone
Say
Has-Been
Through
He
Part
Takes
Over
Important Part
Learnt
Proud
Proud Man
Been
Years
Lot
Times
Quiet
Anything
Need
Difficult Times
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
Bob Barr
Time
Backbone
High
Some
High Time
Oversight
Congressional
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
Brody Armstrong
Backbone
Like
Drummer
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
Bryan Cranston
Great
You
People
Comedy
Situation
Assume
Assumption
Backbone
One Thing
About
Obviously
Make
Up
Break
Then
Thing
Basically
Set
Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.
Bunker Roy
Broken
Man
Confidence
Problems
Will
White
Think
Backbone
Solve
Outside
Countries
Over
Always
How
Been
Any
Maybe
Africa
Wherever
Them
Themselves
Noticed
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