Background Quotes

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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing,… — Melinda Gates
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into… — Andrea Jung
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. — John Hume
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. — B.F. Skinner
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. — Zora Neale Hurston
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his… — Ian Fleming
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or… — Peter Zumthor
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. — Nelson Mandela
That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or… — LeBron James
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
My family background was deeply Christian. — Abbe Pierre
Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a… — Michael Josephson

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