Backgrounds Quotes - Page 19

• The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dark, Wish, Spirit

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• Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.

  Edmund Ware Sinnott

  Inspiration, Rich, Individual

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• I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

  Nan Goldin

  Want, Stella, Persons

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Rain, Singing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.

  Richard Sammel

  Nice, Play, Germany

  Source: collider.com

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• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  Ian Bogost

  Goal, Personality, Needs

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a conversation with them, it's long and winding, and we find out what parts of what we learn about the person lend themselves to further scientific discussion with an expert who is brought into the studio. So that's how that comes together.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Long, Together, Experts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fighting, Keys, Design

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Past, Play, Doe

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fighting, Space, Desire

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts in the social sciences and you're handing that question to people who don't know those facts and in fact, are systematically misinformed about them.

  Jason Brennan

  People, Worry, Political

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.

  Jason Brennan

  Running, Skills, Radio

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Kids, Race

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

  Barack Obama

  Common Humanity, And Love, World

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Gun, Hands

  Source: time.com

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• My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

  Gene Simmons

  Country, Mother, Children

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.

  Eyedea

  Real, Trying, Plight

  Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com

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• I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Country, Years, Roots

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Incredibly, hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who under FBI background and were under FBI background investigations.

  Donald Trump

  People, Identity, Able

  Source: time.com

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• The information hack contains facts discovered by the FBI in doing background checks for people seeking positions with the federal government. It's a treasure trove which can easily be used for blackmail and other reasons by the enemy.

  Donald Trump

  Government, People, Enemy

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

  Petra Haden

  Pages Turning, People, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's social statement. It is somewhat similar to the work of a journalist, just on a different level. This is the kind of cinema I enjoy.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Father, Essence, Documentaries

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them. That's more important even then what their background is or what they've done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.

  Black Francis

  People, Important, Done

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

  Vijay Iyer

  Reality, World, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Intrusion, Notion, My Own

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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