Backgrounds Quotes · Page 10

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

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

— Slash

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing…

— Stanley Schmidt

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined…

— James Burnham

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…

— Stephen Batchelor

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the…

— Beth Brooke

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have…

— Gwen Ifill

Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band…

— Lunice

I have a strong art-history background.

— Eli Roth

We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different…

— Alexandra Byrne

Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world.…

— Noam Chomsky

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else…

— Brian Tracy

IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have…

— Rupert Spira

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background,…

— Rick Yancey

Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created…

— Hillary Clinton

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

— Vijay Iyer

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it…

— Stanley Schmidt

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and…

— Ron Silver

Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of…

— Scott Rolen

Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some…

— Dave Chappelle

I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I…

— Charles Martin Smith

It was great to be around [Tony Walters] - he was like a father figure to me especially in my athletic background.…

— Chris Algieri