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Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend’s dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.

I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master’s degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn’t on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.

I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it’s always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.

nothing happens in August – except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

Don’t let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It’s really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) ‘selling yourself’ and ‘networking’ so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

Maybe we’re about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

I feel like I’ve been training my entire career for this moment in a lot of ways. So many artists just want to draw Batman, and I’m getting the opportunity to do the backups in a brand-new Scott Snyder project that has so many artists.

I’m kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn’t suit me. I’m more of a side dish–cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it’s over for you because there isn’t any supporter backup. If you make a mistake as a plumber, you know, you fix it and everything goes on or you get sued. But if you make a mistake as a cop, you are more infamous than Jesse James, everything’s over.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you’ve already admitted defeat.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I’m not performing anymore. Let’s be realistic: it’s not going to be like this forever.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you’ve admitted that you’re not going to succeed.

This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.

What I gotta do? Cats don’t even have a clue Can’t stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin’ ’bout the backup plan Now that it’s true Forever tellin’ me that you always knew

You can’t always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you’ve just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn’t work, I’ve got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it’s important to have backup.

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody’s throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can’t sing.

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn’t make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn’t play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don’t have a backup plan for living. Live today. […] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That’s the only backup you’ll need.

It’s not my fault Snow didn’t have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

When people floated this idea that this was a conspiracy by the [Jeb] Bush campaign to undermine [Marco] Rubio, at first, it was like it`s too complicated, wheels within wheels but as I thought about it more I did buy that, that this is part of a campaign by Jeb to make it look like there`s no backup plan to Donald Trump, try to blow everything up and then all that will be left is Donald Trump and Jeb who nobody really likes but who has a ton of money and then he`s the only option left.

I don’t think that I’ve ever been a backup.

I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people – with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don’t forget me.