"My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real." — Gustave Flaubert

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• Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax… — Michele Bachmann
• I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family… — Michele Bachmann
• A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives… — Christian Bale
• My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that… — Eric Bana
• The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all… — Dave Barry
• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot… — Cecil Beaton
• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means… — A. C. Benson
• I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background. — Christina Aguilera
• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings… — Lakhdar Brahimi
• My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new… — Jo Brand

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