My Background Quotes
110 My Background quotes by 100 unique authors
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When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.
— Sheena Iyengar
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I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It…
— Bob Dole
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My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my…
— Kevin Rose
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Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
— Reggie Lee
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging…
— Yayoi Kusama
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My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
— Nandan Nilekani
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality…
— Gad Elmaleh
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Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
— Nimrat Kaur
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Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
— Zarin Mehta
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I…
— Hamish Bowles
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I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make…
— Noel Wells
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My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
— Nita Ambani
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The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any…
— Geraldine Stutz
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When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign,…
— Mark Takano
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
— Cameron Russell
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Dance is in my background.
— Rutina Wesley
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I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my…
— Riaad Moosa
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You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
— Elizabeth Emken
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When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of…
— Unknown Author
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The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.
— Isabella Rossellini
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I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a…
— Caroline Sunshine
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited…
— Alan Garner
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I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
— James Heckman
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My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to…
— David Crane
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My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
— Gregory Corso
Who Wrote These My Background Quotes
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