Backgrounds Quotes

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

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.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

My background was in performing originally.

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.