Quotes About Background

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.

I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

Doing background score for a film is not an easy task. It requires constant and deep learning and it is the only way to create a score with finesse.

I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.

People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

they described how they were able to draw website visitors' attention to the goal of comfort merely by placing fluffy clouds on the background wallpaper of the site's

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

While operating in the background—as was his habit—and letting others do the open fighting, he was himself a principal protagonist in the conflict.

The leaders of the revolt were Robert Maynard Hutchins, who had become president of the University of Chicago; Mortimer Adler, whose work on the psychological background of the law of evidence was somewhat similar to work being done at Yale by Hutchins; Scott Buchanan, a philosopher and mathematician; and most important of all for Phaedrus, the present chairman of the committee, who was then a Columbia University Spinozist

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

Go ahead! Panic! " screamed Picchu from somewhere in the background. "Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

As far as I could tell, no one had noticed us. I thought this was what it felt like to be invisible, but when I subtracted Isaac I realized that, until he came along, this was how I had always felt. Not invisible, but a natural part of the background, entitled to all the privileges that came with ownership.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.