Backgrounds Quotes - Page 35

• Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Waiting, Dreamer

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• According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, College, Men

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• Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least as passionate, at least as mobilized and well-funded as the NRA and the gun manufacturers are because the politics in Congress are such where even members of Congress who know better are fearful if they vote their conscience and support common sense measures like background checks, they're worried they're going to lose.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Mass Shootings, People

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• I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Educational, Science

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• To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

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• I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that

  Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Art, Optimism, Perspective

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• No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend.

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, Men, Two

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• There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain

  Maurice Clarett

  Growing Up, Attitude, Character

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• The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.

  Tom of Finland

  Cutting, Important, Usual

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• If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.

  J. C. Kumarappa

  Men, Animal, Discipline

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• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

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• Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

  Aimee Carter

  Love Is, Way, Rooms

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• I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

  Christian Bale

  Men, Desire, Center Of Attention

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• But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

  Tim McGraw

  Strong, Baptists, Grew Up

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

  Shuler Hensley

  Mom, Ideas, Voice

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• I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

  Estella Warren

  Sports, Discipline, Appreciate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

  Bill Paxton

  Age, Normal, Demented

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• The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Intelligent, Reality, Perception

  "Matt LeBlanc: 'Because I'm much more reserved than Joey, people think I'm depressed'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2012.

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• You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

  Werner Klemperer

  Play, People, Littles

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• I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, Style, Faults

  "Belafonte won't back down from Powell slave reference", www.cnn.com. October 16, 2002.

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• The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Interesting, Cheesy, Potatoes

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• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Strong, Fighting, Age

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

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• In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

  Mario Lopez

  Directors, Casting, Cases

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• I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

  Mario Lopez

  Surfing, Roles, Proud

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