Backgrounds Quotes
935 quotes by 827 authors
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
— Gary Ackerman
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God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
— Emanuel Cleaver
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My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
— Josh Charles
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I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
— Sofia Coppola
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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
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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
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I don't come from a privileged background.
— Bernardine Dohrn
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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
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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
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Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their…
— Katherine Dunham
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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
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I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.
— Jenna Fischer
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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
— Jonathan Franzen
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I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
— Gio Gonzalez
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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
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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
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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
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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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My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they…
— Jennifer Garner
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I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime…
— Lisa Gardner
Who Wrote These Backgrounds Quotes
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