Backgrounds Quotes - Page 22

• For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good.

  Edward Snowden

  School, Careers, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

  Jeff Sessions

  People, Chinese, United States

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.

  David Copperfield

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If [lawmakers] lose elections in part because of their votes on the background-check bill or their position on the terror gap bill, then there will be a rethinking of this issue within the Republican conference.

  Chris Murphy

  Issues, Bills, Gaps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the same time the reasons why we were at San Francisco State in the late sixties was because of the agitation and movement building that had occurred within our communities. We saw ourselves not separate from the community but intimately connected to it.

  Danny Glover

  Teacher, San Francisco, Community

  Source: progressive.org

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• My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

  Danny Glover

  Great Work, Theatrical, Playwright

  Source: progressive.org

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• When you're a background singer, you're there to support the artist. The transition is up to the person. You have to follow your heart. You make life decisions that will affect what you really want to do. You put that kind of energy out, and you put it out aggressively. And if you work hard, you'll pave the way.

  Judith Hill

  Hard Work, Heart, Artist

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, People, Products

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

  Theresa May

  Country, Want, Kingdoms

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

  Lana Del Rey

  Writing, Years, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Your life can become the background for the art you create.

  Alicia Keys

  Art

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Two, Work Out

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Quality, World

  Source: onecommunityranch.org

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• My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.

  Murray Bookchin

  People, Tradition, Consideration

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Thinking, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Suffering

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new interpretation of the law on a new mountain. So then you begin to put all these things together, and I don't know how you can make sense out of that book if you don't know the Jewish background.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Law, Together

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• 40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, wbgo.org. February 10, 2017.

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• I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any dual nationality, but the mere fact would be the reality because we have overrepresentation of often Moroccan people and other people from Islamic background in a crime that they would be stripped of the Dutch nationality and sent away.

  Geert Wilders

  Islamic, Reality, People

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• We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Gun, Selling

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Luxury, Evil

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• I'd like to see more Canadians of diverse backgrounds engaging with parties that line up with their convictions and ideologies to make sure that no party gets to run against Muslim Canadians or any other group of Canadians and demonize them.

  Justin Trudeau

  Running, Party, Lines

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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