I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my… — Salma Hayek 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
What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can… — Regina King Copy Share Image
A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
