Backgrounds Quotes - Page 37

• And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

  Jon Secada

  Careers, Surfing, Music Education

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• Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Choices, Habit

  Nicholas Wolterstorff (1983). “Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Shifting, Just Being, Tvs

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• It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, People, Important

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• I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

  Alexa Vega

  Strong, Theatre, Looks

  "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Ashley Parker Angel, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.

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• I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.

  Anushka Sharma

  Girl, Mean, Army

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• With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from

  Shawn Johnson

  Book, Race, Media

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• It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off

  Fred Willard

  Fun, Ensemble, Way

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• It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

  George F. Kennan

  Men, Enemy, Privilege

  George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.

  Cus D'Amato

  Emotional, Boxing, Layers

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• I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

  Tina Weymouth

  Ideas, People, Starting Over

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• I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

  Craig Ferguson

  Birthday, Thinking, Rocks

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• I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Years, White

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• My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, School, Marketing

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

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• No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

  Andrea Jung

  Blood, Marketing, Retail

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Desire, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

  John Hume

  Class, People, Credit

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

  Henry James

  Summer, Drawing, Shadow

  Henry James (1875). “Transatlantic Sketches”, p.54

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• The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

  B. F. Skinner

  World, Violence, Looks

  B.F. SKINNER (1948). “WALDEN TWO”

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• I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

  Jack Kilby

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Issues, Law, Library

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• English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Views, Ethnicity, Discipline

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• Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike

  Clarence Thomas

  Kings, Mean, Thinking

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• I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  White, Race, Racism

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

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