Backgrounds Quotes - Page 26

• I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

  Temple Grandin

  Years, Spinning Plates, Background Noise

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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  Salma Hayek

  Art, Children, Mexican

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• I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

  Tippi Hedren

  Strong, Parent, Moral

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• One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, People, Political

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• I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Blessed, Writing, Play

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• How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

  William Morris Hunt

  Eggs, White, Drawing

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

  John Irving

  Umpires, Surfing, Novelists

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (Eighth Series)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

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• Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

  Naveen Jain

  Mean, Exercise, Brain

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• I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Ideas, Style

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org.

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• In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

  William James

  Philosophical, Surfing, Mind

  "Psychology: The Briefer Course".

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• Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Inspirational, Time, Shadow

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  Adam Jones

  Self, Taught, Classical Music

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• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Thinking, America

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Costumes, Obsessed

  "Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 1, 2011.

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• As a kid, I had a background in theater.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Kids, Theater

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Play, Novel, Theatrical

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• I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Inspiration, People, Use

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• My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

  Alicia Keys

  America, Race, Black

  "'I love Chopin. He's my dawg'". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2002.

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• I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

  Diane Kruger

  Class, Ideas, World

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• Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Historical, Criticism, Gestures

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• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Smart, Lying, Race

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• I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Fall, Rivers, Massachusetts

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• My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Unique, Thinking

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• My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Dance, Song

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

  Amy Lee

  Bigs, Folks

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