Backgrounds Quotes - Page 19

• And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

  Deborah Smith

  Low Income, Lows, Internships

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  Johnny Marr

  Jobs, Father, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be taken on its own terms.

  Hari Nef

  Meaningful, Taken, Luxury

  Source: wwd.com

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• Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

  Beck

  Background Music

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

  Max Tundra

  Thinking, People, Might

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, Modest Mouse is one of the best bands ever. I actually wasn't surprised that they made it big. It's always weird to see it happen, and it happens so fast, all of a sudden songs are in the background on TV.

  Doug Martsch

  Song, Band, Tvs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

  Neon Hitch

  Children, People, Able

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  New York, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.

  Cass Sunstein

  Class, Might, Middle

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

  Robert Barry

  Real, World, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

  Deborah Rhode

  Winning, Benches, Argument

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Ideas, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It's hard to say.

  Allison Grodner

  People, Groups, Different

  "'Big Brother' Bosses Talk Casting Diversity, Lack of Female Winners and Avoiding a Season 15 Repeat". Interview with Brian Porreca, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2016.

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• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Silly, Guitar

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Praying, Used

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

  Pete Cashmore

  Issues, People, Way

  "Pete Cashmore of MASHABLE". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.

  Romany Malco

  Commitment, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Littles, Wonderful, Franklin

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• This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a state senator; how my perspectives around the issues of the day are shaped by my background.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Father, Book

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• It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

  Nathan Parsons

  Art, Training, Pieces

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  Source: brooklynactivemama.com

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• My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, School, Years

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

  Ella Baker

  People, Involved, Family Background

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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