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Background for Humans -- Wilferd Peterson
Background updating is absolutely the future. -- Sam Altman
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. -- Adam Jones
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. -- Jenna Morasca
Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter. -- Deepika Padukone
I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible. -- Holliday Grainger
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. -- Michael Caine
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. -- Ellen Ochoa
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities. -- Julie Andrews
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. -- Ellen Ochoa
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. -- James Madison
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. -- Elon Musk
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. -- Michael Eisner
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. -- Paul Dudley White
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. -- Robert Dallek
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. -- Denzel Washington
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. -- David Lynch
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. -- Geoff Hoon
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background. -- George Foreman
I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. -- Jim Valvano
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them. -- Henry B. Eyring
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway. -- W. Edwards Deming
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. -- Priyanka Chopra
Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market. -- Gail Collins
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. -- Stephen Kinzer
I'm of Arab background. -- Helen Thomas
My background is Scottish. -- Melissa George
Jazz is not background music. -- Horace Silver
I'm from a Gypsy background! -- Cher
Dance is in my background. -- Rutina Wesley
My background was in performing originally. -- Cy Coleman
My background is in health care. -- Bobby Jindal
My background is in musical comedy. -- Christopher Walken
I have a strong art-history background. -- Eli Roth
My family background was deeply Christian. -- Abbe Pierre
I wasn't a great background singer. -- Faith Hill
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. -- Larry David
I come from a traditional theater background. -- Mark Ruffalo
I come from a very working-class background. -- Clive Owen
I come from a very working-class background. -- Clive Owen
A weak background is a deadly thing. -- Robert Henri
I don't come from a privileged background. -- Bernardine Dohrn
My background is in improv and writing. -- Paul Scheer
I came up from a difficult background. -- Gordon Ramsay
I come from a background of independent films. -- Mia Wasikowska
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. -- David Brin
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing -- David Brin
But I came from a conservative Republican background. -- Christopher Meloni
I've sung background for a couple of bands. -- Randy Jackson
I don't know much about my biological background. -- Dan Stevens
I never want to hide my wrestling background. -- Chris Jericho
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background. -- Bruce Greenwood
My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do. -- Will Yun Lee
After all, children are children no matter their background. -- Julie Andrews
Every gun sold should require a background check, period. -- Gary Ackerman
The discipline of desire is the background of character. -- John Locke
As a kid, I had a background in theater. -- Charlie Kaufman
McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt
With my background, I came out of the theater. -- Joe Morton
No matter our background, we all have crazy families. -- Kevin Kwan
I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries. -- Peyton Reed
The background looks like a lot of red cards. -- Arsene Wenger
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. -- Travis Tritt
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. -- Marvin L. Cohen
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. -- Ken Livingstone
Choice is always performed against a background of habit. -- Nicholas Wolterstorff
I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background. -- Jenna Fischer
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us. -- Peter Capaldi
The call to write does not respect background or experience. -- Allen Wier
I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York. -- Amy Ryan
Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media. -- David A. R. White
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. -- Coco Lee
I love folk; that's a big part of my background. -- Amy Lee
I made a living being a background singer for years. -- Katey Sagal
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background. -- Tim McGraw
Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef. -- Jose Garces
I have a dance background. I have an athletic background. -- John Travolta
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for. -- Sonia Johnson
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. -- William Faulkner
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. -- W. E. B. Griffin
I entered this career having no background or connection to acting. -- Demi Moore
I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background. -- Arfa Karim
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. -- William Standish Knowles
My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance. -- Cyril Ritchard
Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life. -- Barbara Goldsmith
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? -- Friedrich Schiller
You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering. -- Nhat Hanh
Your life can become the background for the art you create. -- Alicia Keys
I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper. -- Edward Lampert
I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background. -- Tim Harford
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. -- Paul Giamatti
I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood. -- Gio Gonzalez
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment. -- Robert Edmond Jones
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. -- Seamus Heaney
You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years. -- Elizabeth Emken
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. -- Edith Wharton
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. -- Russell Baker
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. -- Billy Corgan
My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist -- Robin Williams
My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational. -- Connie Britton
There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships -- Lyonel Feininger
Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background. -- Ted Cruz
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album -- Melissa Joan Hart
... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. -- Mary Barnett Gilson
I come from a background where money has never been an issue. -- Ranbir Kapoor
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. -- Jonathan Franzen
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college. -- Amy Schumer
Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement. -- Cholly Atkins
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background. -- Bennie Thompson
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food. -- Peter Mayle
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. -- Wilbur Smith
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album. -- Melissa Joan Hart
I came out of a family background that involved itself with people. -- Ella Baker
If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real. -- Alan Finger
I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background. -- George Blake
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. -- Tom Jones

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