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Quotes About Backing

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
~ Steven Spielberg
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
~ David Bowie
For me, I'm just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster.
~ Kevin Parker
He hadn't played, so if there really was some kind of mystical knowledge you gained from playing, he wouldn't know. Usually he would back down.
~ Simon Kuper
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It's insane to have people recognize me for my work and get behind me.
~ Rhea Ripley
You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident.
~ Andrew Strauss
was not an economist. So, in thinking about how to solve the problem, I decided to start with the big picture. The root cause of inflation in Brazil was really very simple: The government spent more than it earned. When the budget turned up a big deficit every year, as it inevitably did, the government printed more money to cover the difference. Any grade-school student knows, however, that you can't just print endless amounts of cash without having something tangible to back it up.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
I don't know, I just keep finding good horses to back. I've always been pretty lucky that way.
~ Bob Burg
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
~ Richard Branson
Hillary Clinton had the backing of the entire DNC during her 2016 run, and yet, after she lost, all she could do was whine incessantly about how many people had wronged her throughout the process and made it so unfair.
~ Kat Timpf
I've got a crush on my backing singer.
~ Amy Winehouse
Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
~ Anthony Pratt
I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.
~ Brad Meltzer
Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.
~ Suzy Menkes
We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed.
~ Steve Jurvetson
I see an issue I like, and I support it.
~ Kinky Friedman
I believe President Obama means everything he says about sticking to the unprecedented backing of Israel and keeping all options on the table against Tehran, as well as countering its adventures in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.
~ Ehud Barak
I feel that my ideas of beauty have been given very strong backing by Botticelli and a few others: Slender hands, long neck, long limbs - look at Nefertiti. She was very teensy-weensy with a long neck and wide-spaced eyes.
~ Eileen Ford
Small projects need much more help than great.
~ Dante Alighieri
The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
~ Karen Mills
Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less.
~ Eve Branson
At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it.
~ John Caudwell
We're seeing that the well-funded, sort of 'having the establishment backing' doesn't really help you. In fact, you know people are sort of tired of that - they don't trust the Democratic National Party. Many Democrats in Kentucky don't. They are looking for somebody who is honest.
~ Amy McGrath