Backgrounds Quotes - Page 27

• I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

  Annie Lennox

  Jobs, Next Week, Class

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• I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

  Annie Lennox

  Gay, Community, May

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• I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

  Ryan Lochte

  Training, Endurance, Ready

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• The discipline of desire is the background of character.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Character, Discipline

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• I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Focus, Bronx, Certain

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• Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

  David Lynch

  Mosquitoes, Want, Way

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• I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Want, Problem

  "Shirley MacLaine: the new dame in Downton". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hard Work, Rough, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

  Danny McBride

  Hero, Writing, School

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

  Josh McDowell

  Surfing, Resurrection, New Testament

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• The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Magic, Mind, Tunes

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• But I came from a conservative Republican background.

  Christopher Meloni

  Surfing, Conservative, Republican

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• I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

  Robert Morgan

  Chinese, Mathematics, Interest

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• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Other Cultures, Interesting, Mind

  "LatinoBuzz: Viggo Mortensen On Playing Twins, His Love of Argentina, and Soccer". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

  Elon Musk

  Father, Engineering, Physics

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Character, Fiction

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• It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Car, Paper

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• We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

  Michael Nutter

  Assault Weapons, Needs, Magazines

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. August 25, 2008.

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• I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Education, Opportunity, Students

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• I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

  George Osborne

  Urban, Metropolitan, Traditional

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• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  Rand Paul

  Children, School, Color

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

  Rick Perry

  Class, Height, Exceptional

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Use

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