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My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations. -- Josh Charles
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. -- Ernest Istook
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room. -- Helmut Newton
It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together. -- George Lopez
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. -- H. P. Lovecraft
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. -- J. K. Rowling
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. -- Michael Sandel
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
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives. -- Sofia Coppola
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. -- Michele Bachmann
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
Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences. -- Star Jones
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. -- Barbara Bush
It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status. -- Swami Vivekananda
For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. -- Bob Riley
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility. -- Dorothy Height
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. -- Marcel Marceau
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
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. -- Nelson Mandela
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
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. -- Eddie Vedder
You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us. -- David Niven
I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships. -- Jane Green
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music. -- Miranda Lambert
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. -- David Brin
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. -- David Krumholtz
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. -- Barbara Jordan
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. -- Tess Gerritsen
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem. -- Marya Hornbacher
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. -- Richard Leakey
Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries. -- Gillian Cross
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. -- Iain Duncan Smith
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. -- Lamar Alexander
All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul. -- Masayoshi Son
I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet. -- Ashley Jensen
The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed. -- Eric Ries
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
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run. -- Sonia Sotomayor
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. -- Gustave Flaubert
The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. -- Robbie Coltrane
The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. -- Robbie Coltrane
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. -- Robert Genn
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. -- Sally Ride
Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds. -- Arundhati Bhattacharya
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds. -- Barbara Jordan
We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds. -- Hershel Shanks
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different -- Spencer W. Kimball
God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities. -- Lysa TerKeurst
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds -- J. I. Packer
The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds. -- William Loren Katz
We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win. -- Douglas Leone
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love? -- E. Lockhart
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds. -- Michelle Obama
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations. -- Loretta Lux
I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds. -- Junaid Jamshed
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. -- Ryan Phillippe
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative. -- Rick Warren
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings. -- Nicola Cornick
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. -- Christian Smith
The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds. -- Erdem Moral?oglu
I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds. -- Paul van Dyk
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them. -- Emanuel Cleaver
I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not. -- Madeleine Albright
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds. -- John Noble
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself. -- Christina Ricci
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds. -- Alex Pettyfer
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. -- Lowell Bergman
I love Earth Day, when once each year people of different backgrounds and faiths gather together to bury an environmentalist alive. -- John Alejandro King
I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world. -- Vijay Iyer
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
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. -- Andrew Bird
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent. -- Aneurin Barnard
Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out. -- Slash
It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction. -- Desi Arnaz
No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend. -- Chris Rock
The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity. -- Larry R. Thompson
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. -- Mark Foley
Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor. -- Joel Osteen
Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me. -- Brie Larson
Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn't hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up. -- Weegee
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share. -- Annette Bening
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time. -- Harold Feinstein
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. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages. -- Kevin Sorbo
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. -- Russell Banks
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. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities. -- Mark Parker
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 -- David Brin
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. -- John McLaughlin
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. -- Bob Ehrlich
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. -- Zainab Salbi
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. -- Jerry Costello
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
As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds. -- Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag. -- Patricia McConnell
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
In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds. -- Darrell Issa
The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically. -- Alan Price
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets. -- Stephen L. Carter
The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background. -- Kehinde Wiley
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. -- Robert Gottlieb
The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have. -- Pete Cashmore
Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity." -- Judith Thurman
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. -- Nicky Morgan
History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education. -- Malorie Blackman
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds. -- Bill Nighy
For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible. -- John Ashcroft
While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. -- John F. Kennedy
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
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. -- Billy Taylor
I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers. -- Michelle Monaghan
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality. -- Gwen Ifill
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
Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody's help to solve the problems. -- Mario J. Molina
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. -- Adam Sandler

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