Background Quotes - page 31

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing. (Werner Klemperer)
When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room. View quote
Wes Borland
My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do. View quote
Will Yun Lee
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. View quote
William Kempe
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater. View quote
Zachary Levi
Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music. View quote
Zarin Mehta
Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and desire to put it into practice. That person won't be as successful as the person who understands some basics and puts them into action regularly. View quote
Robert Cheeke
We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone. View quote
Wayne LaPierre
The logic and necessity of the new generation - and what they are so furiously opposed to - must be seen against a background of what has gone wrong in America. It must be understood in light of the betrayal and loss of the American dream, the rise of the Corporate State of the 1960's, and the way in which that State dominates, exploits, and ultimately destroys both nature and man. Its rationality must be measured against the insanity of existing "reason" - reason that makes impoverishment, dehumanization, and even war appear to be logical and necessary. Its logic must be read from the fact that Americans have lost control of the machinery of their society, and only new values and a new culture can restore control. Its emotions and spirit can be comprehended only by seeing contemporary America through the eyes of the new generation. View quote
Charles A. Reich
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Reading lots of Dickens. Barnaby Rudge: the last Catholic pogrom - No Popery, the Gordon Riots in London - 1780, twenty years before Newman was born. He must have known people who had set fire to the houses, or taken in victims and refugees. Lord George Gordon who led the mob (obviously a religious maniac) died as late as 1793. Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby - this too, is part of Newman's background, this gallery of living gargoyles, ghouls and monsters. Might account, perhaps, even for some of Newman's pessimism about the world and human nature, which some attribute merely to his own melancholy disposition? That nineteenth century!! (Ida Friederike Görres)
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. View quote
Maria Sharapova
I'm from a Gypsy background! View quote
Cher
I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school. View quote
Dick Gephardt
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself. View quote
Alicia Keys
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. View quote
Uma Thurman
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. (Salma Hayek)
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. View quote
Aretha Franklin
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. View quote
William James
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. View quote
Leonard Cohen