Backgrounds Quotes - Page 17

• I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

  Michael Sandel

  Teaching, Jewish Tradition, Childhood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be taken on its own terms.

  Hari Nef

  Meaningful, Taken, Luxury

  Source: wwd.com

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• Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

  Beck

  Background Music

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• And then they would have the shoe removers on one side, and the non-shoe removers on the other side until they could work through coming to understand why we might both be trying to worship authentically, and because of our cultural background we have these different ideas. But it took a while.

  Michael Emerson

  Shoes, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

  Max Tundra

  Thinking, People, Might

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, Modest Mouse is one of the best bands ever. I actually wasn't surprised that they made it big. It's always weird to see it happen, and it happens so fast, all of a sudden songs are in the background on TV.

  Doug Martsch

  Song, Band, Tvs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Self, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.

  John Dieterich

  Ideas, Band, Fluid

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to make love. You put that on in the background and you go, maybe this will be romantic.

  Chris Isaak

  Love You, Car, Making Love

  "Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.

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• My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

  Neon Hitch

  Children, People, Able

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

  Gore Vidal

  Ordinary, Hills, Capitol Hill

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  New York, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Shadow, Lines

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Clear quartz is known as the "master healer," and can amplify energy and thought. It draws off negative energy, and it can neutralize background radiation. It balances and revitalizes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual planes.

  Miranda Kerr

  Spiritual, Emotional, Balance

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.

  Cass Sunstein

  Class, Might, Middle

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

  Robert Barry

  Real, World, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we do want a diverse and inclusive judiciary - one that looks like the people that they serve. And we do recognize the value of having diverse backgrounds represented.

  Deborah Rhode

  Mean, Rights, People

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

  Deborah Rhode

  Winning, Benches, Argument

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Ideas, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Believe, Ethnicity, Diversity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Giving, Historical

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

  Paul Rudd

  Cities, Careers, Actors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It's hard to say.

  Allison Grodner

  People, Groups, Different

  "'Big Brother' Bosses Talk Casting Diversity, Lack of Female Winners and Avoiding a Season 15 Repeat". Interview with Brian Porreca, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2016.

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• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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