Background Quotes

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The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and… — Gene Cernan
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb.… — Kid Cudi
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral… — Billy Childish
I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my… — Marco Arment
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my… — Frank Abagnale
Every gun sold should require a background check, period. — Gary Ackerman
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the… — Stephen Cambone
When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the… — Stephen Chow
I don't come from a privileged background. — Bernardine Dohrn
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite… — Michelle Dockery
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago,… — Dinesh D'Souza
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our… — Katherine Dunham
I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background. — Jenna Fischer
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. — Jonathan Franzen
I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood. — Gio Gonzalez
Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and… — Trey Gowdy
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. — Cindy Gallop
I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am… — Dick Gephardt
When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh.… — Jeff Greenfield

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