Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people,… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact...… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
I think people will want to eat more street food, things that are more off the cuff, things with a food truck… — Tom Aikens Copy Share Image
Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man,… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] can't reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image