Background Quotes

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People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. — Jan Tschichold
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is… — Pierre de Coubertin
In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.) — Joe Manchin
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! — Kazimir Malevich
Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. — Travis Tritt
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. — Shannon Miller
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where… — Roger Waters
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems… — Andrew Marr
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony. — Paul Simon
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part… — Chen-Ning Yang
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
Hitler did not have Mussolinis revolutionary socialist background. . . . Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the bourgeoisie and capitalism and… — Richard Pipes
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have… — L. Ron Hubbard
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are… — Paul Dudley White

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