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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

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out. — Slash

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

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. — Robert Genn

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

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

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources. — Jane Brody

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

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord. — Tehyi Hsieh

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

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win. — Douglas Leone

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

In an age of deeply embedded bigotries and clashes, he stood for a universal spirituality, opening his doors to people of all backgrounds. — Elif Shafak

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

I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street. — Blake Edwards

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

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. — Sally Ride

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

The call to write does not respect background or experience. — Allen Wier

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

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds. — Maajid Nawaz

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

Background for Humans — 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

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. — Jodie Foster

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

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

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 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

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were. — Ann Leckie

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 come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background. — George Blake

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

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships. — Jane Green

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

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

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

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. — Beck

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

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

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