Backgrounds Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

  Joel Silver

  Sports, Proud, Creation

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• Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

  Janel Parrish

  Passion, Play, Piano

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Children, Meals, Different

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• I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Race, Diversity, Age

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• I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

  Amy Ryan

  New York, Queens, Class

  "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.

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• My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

  Fred Seibert

  Marketing, Saws, Entertainment

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Italian, Would Be, Heritage

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• I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, Used, Celtic

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

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• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Curious, Turns

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• I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, Focus, Variation

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

  Michael Shannon

  Mother, Religious, Growing Up

  "Going Under The 'Boardwalk' With Michael Shannon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

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• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  Aaron Tveit

  Two, Half, Lines

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• But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

  Uma Thurman

  People, Parent, Neat

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• As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.

  Mark Udall

  Character, Night, America

  "CNN Newsroom" with Ali Velshi, www.cnn.com. January 13, 2011.

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• If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

  Carol Vorderman

  Poor, Harder, Ifs

  "Carol Vorderman: I'm single for the first time in my life - and I really like it!" by Julie McCaffrey, www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2011.

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• Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

  Jack Vance

  Writing, Thinking, Wells

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• Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

  Dreama Walker

  Girl, Real, Shoes

  "The Interpretation of Dreama". Interview with Alex Chapman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Culture, Levels

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• That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

  Jack White

  People, Needs, Computer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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