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One must be humble, one must keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if one wishes to discover the realities of the world.
— Sigmund Freud
The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
— Javier Bardem
Some places in the world, such as Ramsar, Iran, have a tenfold higher background radiation,
— John Brockman
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
— Ken Livingstone
TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it's just a bigger screen.
— Hari Sreenivasan
Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.
— Robin M. Helm
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
— Alan W. Livingston
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
— Michael Caine
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
— Sally Ride
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
— David Chalmers
A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?
— Charles Stross
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
— Caroline Corr
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
— Ben Nicholas
I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.
— Sophia Bush
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
— Witold Gombrowicz
I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.
— DeObia Oparei
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
— Milan Kundera
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.
— Meredith Brooks
When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.
— Sheena Iyengar
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
— Friedrich Schiller
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
— Thomas Carlyle
My hands were sticky with glue, and I hummed along to Sia, playing in the background.
— Heather Demetrios
sings in the background like a big bale of black coming towards me through moorland mist.
— Morrissey
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
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
— Anthony Browne
The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel.
— Lewis Gardner
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
— Gore Vidal
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
— Gregory Corso
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
— Kim Jong Il
Flags snap in the breeze above us, banners with a lavender stalk in front of a golden maple leaf on a green background.
— Sara Raasch
I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.
— Jennifer Lopez
experience that are in the background
— Jason Siff
Life should play background music just as in the movies.
— Avijeet Das
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
— Robert Breault
The microwave background indicated that the universe had had a hot, dense stage in the past.
— Stephen Hawking
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
— Lynn Abbey
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
— Mac Miller
I am not the star of a zombie movie. I am the guy in the background who gets eaten in the first montage.
— David Wong
He and all his race showed small and ephemeral against the background of such immeasurable fullness.
— C.S. Lewis
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory.
— Betty Smith
God simply faded into the background like our toys, into the distant past. And the memories of Sunday roasts with pudding and custard.
— Abigail George
A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Cities and roadsI have never seen
Are in the background of your photos
Yet, I don't feel
How faraway you are — Shasika Amali Munasinghe
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
— Glen Taylor
He who hears only a "Will to Truth" in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.
— Toni Tennille
A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens.
— James Mayrose
I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.
— Anthony Pettis
Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.
— Kathy Reichs
The radiation experiments are part of the climate and historical background for mind control experimentation.
— Colin A. Ross
Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.
— Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
There's always a book in the background.
— Suzanne Steele
Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.
— Andrew Sean Greer
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
— Michael Nutter
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
— William Standish Knowles
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
— Tomas Transtromer
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.
— Richard Dawkins
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
— Spencer W. Kimball
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
— B.F. Skinner
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
— Deborah Needleman
But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.
— David Mitchell
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
— William James
I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.
— Tia Mowry
I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
— Sonia Johnson
The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.
— Rob Paulsen
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
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
— Valorie Curry
The year I snuck an interracial lesbian couple into the background of an American Airlines commercial, I was feeling particularly flush.
— Augusten Burroughs
The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century,
— Douglas Adams
The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.
— Isabella Rossellini
could hear Rico's ass laughing in the background like I was some nigga on Comedy Central telling jokes and shit
— Lucinda John
Edgar was silent as it registered. The background sound of television went quiet and he then spoke in the weak voice of a child asking
— Michael Connelly
Do not allow your background to draw you to the ground. Imagine the bigger picture, for you will get there.
— Osunsakin Adewale
The Strict Father model takes as background the view that life is difficult and that the world is fundamentally dangerous.
— George Lakoff
Do you, and the rest is background noise.
— Grace Gealey