Backgrounds Quotes - Page 27

• Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Race, Surfing

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• My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Reading, Surfing, Three

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• The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

  Satyajit Ray

  Surfing, Use, These Days

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

  Kim Jong Il

  Mean, Surfing, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

  Sean Connery

  Surfing, Environment

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• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Character, Space, Surfing

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

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• Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.

  Raymond Louis Wilder

  Appreciation, Math, Perspective

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• My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kids, Helpful, Position

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• We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, Gun, Criminals

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.

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• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Issues, Criminals, Honest

  "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Straits Times, September 19, 1999.

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• Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...) The reader is forced to re-evaluate the spectacular weirdness of Weldon's fiction: having lived such a life any other kind would seem insipid.

  Joanna Murray-Smith

  Husband, Years, Creative

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• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  Eberhard Weber

  Thinking, Play, Support

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  Eberhard Weber

  Play, Musician, Bass

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• This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Writing, Mean, Attention

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• Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

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• I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Thinking, Monsters, Feels

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• My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Mother, New York, Scotland

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• Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Self, Self Respect, Students

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• Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Direct Selling, Skills

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• I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.

  Esha Gupta

  Home, Army, Up Early

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• The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

  Alan Redpath

  Hero, Order, Grace

  Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

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• Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Israel, Preparation

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• I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Looks, Dialogue, Policy

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• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  School, People, Way

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.199, Penguin

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