Background Quotes - page 33

I love folk; that's a big part of my background. (Amy Lee)
No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective. View quote
Aleister Crowley
French for "Games without frontiers" (background vocals throughout the song, sung by Kate Bush) View quote
Peter Gabriel
There was a lot to be said for the situation that existed in the old days, when a singer's writing partner stayed in the background. View quote
Kim Wilde
Secularism is the experience of the Western culture and thought. Insisting on spreading it to places where the underlying intellectual background, and the political and social reasons for its appearance are lacking, is clearly a mistake, regardless of being desirable or not. (Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies, Nov 2005) View quote
Mohammad Khatami
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background. View quote
Leona Lewis
On this seat - where she came to me for the first time, which was once so important to us that it seemed as if the background of things all about us had been created by us - we sit down to-day, after we have vainly sought in nature the traces of our transit. View quote
Henri Barbusse
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff. View quote
Christopher Walken
Growing up as somebody from another country, really, not what you see on television, I never saw myself in the forefront, ever. We were always in the background. View quote
Lucy Liu
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships. (John Frusciante)
I was fortunate enough to be trained in the theater. Coming from the theater background, you're schooled to play diverse roles in preparation for the repertory environment, or the repertory type of lifestyle. So, to me, going back and forth from genre to genre is only keeping true to the way I was trained in the theater. And I'm really an action fan. I'm a movie fan in general, but I'm definitely an action fan, as well. View quote
Wesley Snipes
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms. View quote
Gabrielle Giffords
I have to be true to that - I can't take certain things away. I do have a political background. I'm only in England, learning this language and building a life in this society, because of political reasons. Why would I deny that? View quote
M.I.A.
I can sing about songs with gunshots in the background because I heard them. It's almost like my music has been a way to smoke out the hatred that's been bubbling underneath what's going on in Sri Lanka. If there's 300,000 people who are trapped and they're dying, it should be talked about, it should be brought to the table, and I don't see anything wrong in sticking up for 300,000 dying people. View quote
M.I.A.
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension. View quote
Stephen Mangan
No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith. View quote
George W. Bush
I ask you to uphold the values of America, and remember why so many have come here. We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith. View quote
George W. Bush
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. View quote
David Lynch
In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best. View quote
Tim Allen
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas. (Neil Gaiman)
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English. View quote
Paul Walker
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background. View quote
George Foreman
It remains a real world if there is a background to the symbols. View quote
Arthur Eddington
It is to this background that our own personality and consciousness belong, and those spiritual aspects of our nature not to be described by any symbolism... to which mathematical physics has hitherto restricted itself. View quote
Arthur Eddington