Backgrounds Quotes - Page 4

• When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

  Rick Yune

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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

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• I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Sports, Video, Shooting

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• I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

  John Thorn

  Running, Thinking, Youth

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• Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

  Michael Hirst

  Love, Reading, Age

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• We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

  Bill Bruford

  Usa, Guy, Different

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• In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Media, Background Noise

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

  Norwood Russell Hanson

  Objectivity, Subjectivity, Influence

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• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

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• My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

  Robin Williams

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  "Prime Minister Prime Fodder For Media" by Jeannine Yeomans, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 1999.

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• The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Different, Hazards

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

  Matthew McGrory

  Passion, Law, Degrees

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• Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten
  out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of
  personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

  J. C. Ryle

  Party, Heart, Spirit

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Makeup, Taste

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• The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.

  John Humphrys

  Views, Years, People

  "John Humphrys: pro-Europe BBC shied away from immigration debate" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.

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• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Challenges

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Relaxation, Mind, Trying

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.57, Random House

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• The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?

  Irina Bokova

  War, Past, Holocaust

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• A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Environment, Theater, Stage

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre”, p.3, Taylor & Francis

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• Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.

  Dalai Lama

  Stress, Fighting, Differences

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• The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Years, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.48, Beacon Press

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• Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, People, Support

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• This week the White House proposed fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors so they can do background checks. Officials in Saudi Arabia said this will only increase anti-American feelings in the Mideast. Is that possible? Gee, you hate to have people dislike us for no reason. Things were going so well.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, White, People

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• Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Worry, Ordinary, Use

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• I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

  Brian Tee

  World, Roles, Action

  "‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

  Nita Ambani

  Thinking, Class, Middle

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