Backgrounds Quotes - Page 28

• My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

  Brad Pitt

  Dad, Father, Opportunity

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• Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

  Ayn Rand

  Animal, Unique, Men

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.12, Penguin

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• I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moving, Light, Giving

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• I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

  Christina Ricci

  Might, Ugh, Sincere

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Airplane, Flight, Physics

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• For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

  Sally Ride

  Nasa

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• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  Sally Ride

  Two, Space, Pilots

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• The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

  Eric Ries

  Fall, Zuckerberg, Class

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• Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

  Pat Robertson

  Children, Health, Responsibility

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• I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Want

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• I have a strong art-history background.

  Eli Roth

  Art, Strong, Art History

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• I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

  Mickey Rourke

  Feelings, Way, Shame

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• We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Believe, Commitment

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Long, People

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• I made a living being a background singer for years.

  Katey Sagal

  Years, Singers, Made

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• Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

  Zoe Saldana

  Thinking, Dancing, Ballet

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• My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.

  Mark Sanchez

  Supportive, Matter, My Family

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• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  Carlos Santana

  Player, Wake Up, Lyrical

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• My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Real, Expression

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• I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, College, Class

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  America, People, Religion

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Hip Hop, Musical

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• I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Nice, Home

  "Self Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody's background, especially teenagers - they're so uninhibited when they display puppy love. I concoct stories in my mind: 'Are you guys like Romeo and Juliet?'

  Sherri Shepherd

  New York, Teenager, People

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• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Father, Home, Kids

  "X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Paul Lewis, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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