Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of… — Anna Friel
Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet, domestic violence continues… — John Nettles
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also… — Neil Peart
I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied,… — Lee Child
The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I'm not super talented and… — Jack White
But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by… — Erlend Loe
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds… — John Kricfalusi
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is… — Noam Chomsky
I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the… — Jane Green
On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, [Hinckley] sounded uncertain, `I don't know that we teach it. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing — David Brin
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like… — David Brin
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. — Andy Warhol
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are… — Carl Hiaasen
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything… — Bobby Knight
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper… — Alexander Wang
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and I… — Billy Graham
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life -- whatever their background or beliefs,… — Jean Chretien
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. — Van Wyck Brooks

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