Background Quotes - page 34

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights. (Rick Perry)
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Never has it been more controlled ever. Take the addition, the changes, the copyrights turn, take the changes to copyrights scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before. View quote
PJ Harvey
Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. View quote
Willa Cather
The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate. View quote
Michelle Trachtenberg
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? View quote
Kerry Washington
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. View quote
Cat Power
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. (Temple Grandin)
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. View quote
Chris Patten
One of the things women bring to a research project, or indeed any project, is they come from a different place, they've got a different background. View quote
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it. View quote
Regina King
I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest. View quote
Regina King
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. View quote
Larry David
Ionizing radiation has always been with us and will be for all foreseeable time. Our genetic system is probably well adjusted by natural selection to normal background radiation. Added radiation will increase the frequency of mutations; most of these will be harmful. Exposure to radiation in large amounts will increase malignant disease; small amounts may possibly do the same. In view of these potentially harmful effects every reasonable effort should be made to reduce the levels of ionizing radiation to which man is exposed to to the lowest levels that can reasonably be attained. View quote
George Beadle
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest. View quote
Helen Thomas
I'm of Arab background. View quote
Helen Thomas
If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited. View quote
Carly Fiorina
a figure should be a part of the background against which it is placed. (Pierre Bonnard)
...There's still this notion that you are somehow morally superior if you don't know anything about the background of the writers you read, and I maintain that writers have every right to not talk their backgrounds, that's fine, but when people do and it's important to their work, to not know doesn't mean you're morally superior, it means you are indifferent... View quote
Nalo Hopkinson
It is true that Armageddon is raging and incredible crimes have been committed, but it is also true that against the background of these terrors a speedy evolution rushes onward. Is it possible that people do not see how much of the new is entering life? We should not permit the doubting worldlings to proclaim that the dark forces are victorious. That which belongs to Infinity cannot be conquered. The Thinker wisely encouraged His disciples, and prophesied the victory of the Forces of Light. View quote
Helena Roerich
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. View quote
Hakeem Olajuwon
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. View quote
Dorothy Allison