Backgrounds Quotes · Page 16

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of…

— Michael Sandel

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for…

— Black Francis

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was…

— Frank Abagnale

You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in…

— Quentin Crisp

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that…

— William Baziotes

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances,…

— Stephen Chbosky

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much…

— Chris Patten

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an…

— Ben Aaronovitch

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in…

— John F. Kennedy

I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't…

— Navi Rawat

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background…

— Eli Broad

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and…

— Leonard Susskind

For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of…

— Bob Shacochis

Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't…

— Nat Hentoff

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has…

— Erving Polster

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit,…

— Maurice Gibb

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had…

— Robert Crumb

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context,…

— Sasa Stanisic

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

— Mary Barnett Gilson

Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,…

— Mayim Bialik

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

— Susan Lucci