Different Backgrounds Quotes - Page 2

• Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!

  Kabir Bedi

  America, Effort, Together

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Country, People, Different

  Source: irusa.org

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• I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

  Sonia Braga

  New York, Character, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Numbers, Giving

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• In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

  Van Jones

  Self, Diversity, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

  Ernest Istook

  Father, Son, America

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• I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Team, Believe, Views

  "CEO Forum: Rosenfeld keeps Kraft from being too cheesy". Interview with David Lieberman, usatoday30.usatoday.com. December 10, 2009.

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• My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

  Susan Lucci

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Country

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.

  John Boyega

  Artist, Cities, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

  Lucy Walker

  Ambition, People, Different

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

  Eboo Patel

  Dream, Baby, Couple

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

  Paul Gigot

  Country, Football, Player

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

  Russell Simmons

  Commitment, Careers, Common Purpose

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• It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

  Ed Miliband

  Country, School, Thinking

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• The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.

  John Carmack

  Games, Design, Suffering

  "John Carmack discusses RAGE on iPhone/iPad/iPod" by John Carmack, www.bethblog.com. October 26, 2010.

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• The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Yale

  "A Charge to Keep". Book by George W. Bush, 1999.

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• For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Different, Culture

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• Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above all, we can bring people with different backgrounds and different knowledge together to discuss our problems. This actually gives me hope. I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Smart, Home

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• For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we all put those differences aside. Fundamentally, I believe that’s what the American people expect of Congress as well. We all ought to be able to come together in Washington and do what’s best for our America.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Religious, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

  E. Lockhart

  Color, What If, Being Different

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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