Backgrounds Quotes - Page 39

• So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

  Michael Stipe

  People, Fans, World

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• The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

  Lytton Strachey

  War, Taken, Passion

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

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• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Historical, Theatre

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Soccer, Sports, Player

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

  Anna Friel

  Careers, Domestic Violence, Important

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• Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet, domestic violence continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of their background, career, race or age, and it is vital that we do something now to protect those directly affected by abuse in the home.

  John Nettles

  Home, Race, Doors

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• Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

  Neil Peart

  Milk And Honey, Land, Names

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• I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Television, World

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• The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I'm not super talented and had no art training. Nothing, nada, zip. No workshops or classes.

  Jack White

  Art, Successful, Class

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• But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.

  Erlend Loe

  Real, Fall, Weather

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• I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

  John Kricfalusi

  Artist, Perspective, Style

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• As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Thinking, Focus

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• I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Philosophical, Men

  "Kingdome Come" by David Van Biema, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

  Jane Green

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

  David Brin

  Writing, Surfing, Literature

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• I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

  David Brin

  Writing, Character, Feelings

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

  Andy Warhol

  Wall, Color, People

  "Andy Warhol: In His Own Words". Book by Mike Wrenn, 1991.

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• I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, Team, America

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• If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Silence, Listening

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Jobs, Winning

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• I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Brother, School

  "Alexander Wang Gang". Interview with Diane Von Furstenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them and I do.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Race, Giving

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• Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

  Jean Chretien

  Opportunity, Rich Or Poor, Citizens

  "Chretien: Trudeau gave pride, strove for justice". www.cnn.com. September 28, 2000.

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• Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Want, Vivid, Talent

  Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”

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• America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Blood

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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