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There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
— Lyonel Feininger
They both had backgrounds in science, and enjoyed similar pastimes such as cycling and CrossFit.
— Patrick Kendrick
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
— Anthony Hopkins
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
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
— J.I. Packer
You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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 history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
— William Loren Katz
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
— Friedrich Schiller
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.
— Michelle Obama
God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.
— Joanna Page
My background is in musical comedy.
— Christopher Walken
I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.
— Paul Van Dyk
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
— Frederick Lenz
Jazz is not background music.
— Horace Silver
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.
— Robert Edmond Jones
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
— Emanuel Cleaver
We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.
— Margaret Stohl
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
— David Hockney
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
The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.
— Erdem Moralioglu
The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.
— Robbie Coltrane
If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?
— Daniel Tosh
Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.
— Arundhati Bhattacharya
My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
— Josh Charles
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
— Alex Pettyfer
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
— Loretta Lux
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
— Lowell Bergman
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.
— Christian Smith
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
— Blixa Bargeld
Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
— Cholly Atkins
Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.
— Ian Kershaw
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
— Aneurin Barnard
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
— Rowan Pelling
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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— Wilferd Peterson
The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.
— Negash Ali
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
— Umberto Eco
Hip hop music (and the entire category) is one of few that unite fans of all colors, races, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, ages and genders.
— Carlos Wallace
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
— Andrew Bird
One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.
— Herbert Jefferson Jr.
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.
— Christina Ricci
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
— Jarvis Cocker
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 definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
— Sofia Coppola
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
— Ryan Phillippe
I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.
— Piper Perabo
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
— Peter Capaldi
As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
— William Baziotes
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
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
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.
— Rick Warren
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different
— Spencer W. Kimball
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
— Gustave Flaubert
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
A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing ...
— Lucy R. Lippard
There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
— George Osborne
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
— E. Lockhart
A weak background is a deadly thing.
— Robert Henri
Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.
— Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
— John Noble
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
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
— Nicola Cornick
