Backgrounds Quotes - Page 3

• The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.

  Cynthia Hand

  Baby, Brother, Thinking

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Punishment, Giving

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Listening

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.19, Random House

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• My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Aggravation, Tuesday, Wonderful

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• There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

  Chaim Potok

  Religious, Strong, Diminish

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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• America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Mean, Humble

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.

  Neil Postman

  Knowing, Perspective, Priorities

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.70, Penguin

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• The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

  Bill Gates

  Death, Eye, Media

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, Topics, Firsts

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• Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

  Jamie Oliver

  Reading, Writing, School

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• I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

  Jason Wu

  Interesting, Mixing, Experts

  "Jason Wu Makes His Move into Home". Interview with Anne Monoky, www.architecturaldigest.com. October 31, 2011.

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Welcome, Persons

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• Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Team

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on tech's diversity gap". Interview with Jessica Guynn, www.usatoday.com. August 12, 2014.

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• We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Differences, Diversity, Share

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• Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

  Mark Foley

  School, Catholic, United States

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• At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

  Dee Dee Warwick

  Money, Demos, Making Money

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• Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It is also your task to direct all the institutions working in the area of forced migration to new forms of co-responsibility. This phenomenon is unfortunately constantly spreading. Hence your task is increasingly demanding in order to promote tangible responses of closeness, journeying with people, taking into account the different local backgrounds.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Order, People

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• The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Ideas, Political

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• The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, School, Issues

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• The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, People, Democracy

  First Presidential Prime Time Press Conference, delivered 9 February 2009

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• Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Thinking, Silence

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• If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

  Sarah Zettel

  Character, Mind, Stories

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