Backgrounds Quotes - Page 25

• You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely with you. And the audience becomes a collective entity as well. They come in from separate places and socio-economic backgrounds, and places across the world and days that they've had, and then they come together and they become one collective thing, and experience something in a collective way.

  Audra McDonald

  Together, Way, World

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in the background. It's very rude. You have to ask them personally. It's like a vampire being invited into a house.

  Ben Wheatley

  People, House, Rude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.

  Elia Suleiman

  Character, Thinking, Tools

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Creativity, Mash Up

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, Church, Generations

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  M. H. Abrams

  Military, Communication, Voice

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• I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

  Christina Aguilera

  Judgmental, Comment, Persons

  "Christina (without all the drama)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2008.

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• Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Race, People, Tolerance

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• In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

  Tim Allen

  Men, Years, Differences

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• 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.

  Lance Armstrong

  Years, People, Design

  "Lance Armstrong In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

  Michele Bachmann

  School, College, Law

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• I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

  Christian Bale

  Teenager, People, Giving

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• My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

  Eric Bana

  Writing, Creative, Television

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• The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Birthday, Believe

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• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

  Cecil Beaton

  Islands, Sky, Rose

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• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  A. C. Benson

  Business, Mean, Decision

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• My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, Littles, Potato Chips

  "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Discipline, Boards

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

  Jeb Bush

  Unique, Florida, Diversity

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• I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

  Sophia Bush

  Believe, Men, Rights

  "Sophia Bush disappointed in Obama, scared of GOP field" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

  Sophia Bush

  Book, Character, Together

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• The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

  Michael Caine

  Class, People, Guy

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• I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

  Mariah Carey

  Fit, Felt

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• In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

  Emma Goldman

  Home, Land, Tradition

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