Backgrounds Quotes - Page 23

• As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Political, Ambitious

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• There are days we live
  as if death were nowhere
  in the background; from joy
  to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
  from blossom to blossom to
  impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

  Li-Young Lee

  Sweet, Wings, Joy

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of "diversity," it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendships with those who share similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  People, Diversity, Silence

  "A Tyranny of True Believers" by Robert Samuelson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2008.

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• Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

  Martha Brooks

  Memories, Sacred, Matter

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• One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.

  Herbert Jefferson, Jr.

  Strong, Boomers

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• A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

  Katy Mixon

  People, Greek, Tennessee

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Opportunity, Giving, Age

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• The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life
  walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the
  same economic situation, the same national background and
  education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all
  humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our
  restricted and impoverished lives.

  Florence Luscomb

  Religious, Wall, Lying

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• Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

  William James

  Skulls, Evil, Healthy

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Greatness

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• You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

  David Carson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Parent

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• I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

  Ermanno Olmi

  Ambition, Intellectual, Looks

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• Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background. It becomes a confusing, emotional mess and we wonder why God isn't giving us more direction, when all the while He is there waiting to be allowed back into first place in our hearts. Only when He is truly in first place are we ready for a God-written love story.

  Leslie Ludy

  Heart, Emotional, Giving

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Voting, Borders, Politician

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• To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Past, Gun, Assault Weapons

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• IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness.

  Rupert Spira

  Honesty, Book, Recovery

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• My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

  William Standish Knowles

  Matter, My Family, Family Background

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• Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

  Richard Branson

  Determination, Hard Work, Passion

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• Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Kids, Simple

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• But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

  Thomas Lynch

  Hobbies, Utterance, Way

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• I've sung background for a couple of bands.

  Randy Jackson

  Couple, Band

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• I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.

  Joanna Page

  Stars, Donkey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Believe, Past

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Dog, People, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Light, Shadow

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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