Backgrounds Quotes · Page 59

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

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get…

— Barack Obama

It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be…

— Dave Grohl

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

— David Brin

After all, children are children no matter their background.

— Julie Andrews

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways…

— David Puttnam

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being…

— Patty Griffin

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and…

— Carl Jung

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In…

— Alan Bennett

I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every…

— Michael Shannon

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian…

— Bishop Noel Jones

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So…

— Greg Graffin

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He…

— David Copperfield

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting,…

— Philip Warren Anderson

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

— Christian Bale

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

— Jerome K. Jerome

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame…

— Richard Dawkins

My background is Protestant so I benefited from the great Bible teaching that was provided there... I did love the more culturally…

— Keith Getty

I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes…

— Kristen Bell

What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot…

— David Lee Roth

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

— Beck

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

— Tehyi Hsieh

There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils…

— Larry Carlton