Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

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
For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the… — Bob Riley
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
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth.… — Steven Biko
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
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that… — C. Northcote Parkinson
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper… — Helmut Newton
I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view. — Irene Rosenfeld
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up. — Max Schmeling

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