Backgrounds Quotes · Page 37

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

— Christina Ricci

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the…

— Joanna Page

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people…

— James Maslow

I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and…

— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the…

— Donald Trump

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a…

— Wes Craven

You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

— Bill Bailey

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with…

— Mickey Rourke

Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to…

— Adam Savage

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

— Walter Gilbert

I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the…

— Wendy Davis

My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when…

— Lenny Kravitz

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because…

— Harrison Salisbury

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with…

— Abraham Lincoln

I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really…

— Nomi Ruiz

I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school…

— Mindy Kaling

Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer…

— Bassam Tibi

Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or…

— Roy Romer

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much…

— Jean Rhys

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

— Neon Hitch

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

— Rowan Pelling

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

— E. Lockhart

Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have…

— Marianne Williamson

Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in…

— Bill Maher