Backgrounds Quotes · Page 21

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then…

— Brian Eno

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

— Emanuel Cleaver

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn…

— Larry R. Thompson

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that…

— Walter Isaacson

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

— Werner Herzog

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

— Jon Secada

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share.…

— Georgie Anne Geyer

[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God…

— Ann Voskamp

A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can…

— Roseanne Barr

I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure…

— Matt Lindland

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation,…

— Nicky Gumbel

He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and…

— Valerie Harper

In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and…

— Carl Honore

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together…

— Dorothy Height

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative.…

— Maynard James Keenan

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people…

— Jo Walton

... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

— Robert Crumb

It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,…

— George Eliot

During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman…

— Patrick Gaubert

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and…

— John Lennon

I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many…

— Albert Einstein

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

— E. Lockhart

The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

— Erdem Moral?oglu

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

— Andy Warhol

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

— Leona Lewis

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

— Rush Limbaugh

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and…

— Theophilus London

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

— Hakeem Olajuwon

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

— Spencer W. Kimball

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone…

— Joanna Kerns

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got…

— Julie Andrews

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

— Rick Warren

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and…

— Randall Kennedy

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

— Madeleine Albright

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,

— Ahmad Jamal

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

— Pope Benedict XVI

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in…

— Denise Mina