Backgrounds Quotes - Page 23

• When a being such as myself who came from a rather difficult background is to 'work' here on earth, dimensionally as part of assistance to the animal kingdom one is brought to your own awareness of what you are capable of firstly even before you're given access to what goes on here. When the dimensions work here there are no issues or fears, just full awareness in each moment of who we really are and what it is we are currently busy assisting with, therefore I have a lot still to learn.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Animal, Issues, Goes On

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• I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.

  Stephen Colbert

  New York, Tea, Would Be

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I did do some things different [in John Wick 2], but it's different on basically the same things. Because I have the background from the first film, it was really the first time I was doing judo and jiu-jitsu.

  Keanu Reeves

  Firsts, Jiu Jitsu, Different

  Source: lrmonline.com

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• Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the background, and feel a great attraction for a daughter of God and therefore desire to enter marriage and have children and enjoy the blessings of eternity - that's a situation when marriage would be appropriate.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Daughter, Children, Blessing

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fighting, Ideas, Appreciate

  Source: www.mott.org

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• I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: www.mott.org

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• There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humility, Light, Ability

  Source: www.mott.org

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• I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.

  George Saunders

  Class, Choices, Benefits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

  Cedric Yarbrough

  Thinking, Musical, Musician

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).

  Larry Hurtado

  Thinking, Study, Kind

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background, is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Growing Up, Class, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Differences, Careers, Wife

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I have been dealing with those types of complicated things and my scholastic background, so I think that helps me - my nutrition and my understanding of the human body, and the processes for recovery and proper dietary restrictions.

  Chris Algieri

  Recovery, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• It was great to be around [Tony Walters] - he was like a father figure to me especially in my athletic background. That is a person I will never forget and share in all of my victories since I left there until I am done.

  Chris Algieri

  Father, Athletic, Victory

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• [Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mother, Religious, Father

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• [Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

  Hilary Mantel

  Class, Fake, Mind

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

  Tony Blair

  Class, Never Quit, Royal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.

  Dave Asprey

  Coffee, Green, Want

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

  Octavia Spencer

  People, Church, Alabama

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Messages, Nuclear

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• The idea of listening to a record that's in one generic style, it becomes quite boring after the third or fourth song, in my opinion. It just becomes a bit... when you've got the same arrangement on a song, your ears get tired. I come from a DJ background and it's about trying to put songs together that don't fit necessarily but you can get away with putting them next to each other. I think of myself as a punter and ask myself: what would I like to hear?

  Dom Thomas

  Song, Tired, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Gun, Hands

  "ranscript: Clinton talks Orlando, Sanders, campaign with Telemundo". Interview With José Díaz-Balart, thehill.com. June 14, 2016.

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• My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

  Floyd Cooper

  Use, Shapes, Painting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.

  Billy Connolly

  Eight, Done, Clubs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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