One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is…

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

— Steven Biko

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

— Jenna Morasca

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

— John Wimber

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be…

— Michael Eisner

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And…

— Kathleen Battle

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

— Carol Higgins Clark

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

— William James

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and…

— Billy Graham

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

— Billy Taylor

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

— Chogyam Trungpa

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

— Margaret Thatcher

Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

— Dallin H. Oaks

I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author…

— Adina Porter

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them as a…

— Michael Bivins