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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

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. — Andy Warhol

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

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies. — Leah Busque

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers

And there we were, in the background of it all, holding on to one another. The Perfectionist, the Sweetheart, the Diva ... and me. — Kiera Cass

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

No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise. — Jamie Mason

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

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

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

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport. — Joel Silver

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

Please stop hiding and actually live your life." He pauses long enough to squeeze my shoulder. "It's killing me to watch you fade into the background. — Aly Martinez

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. — Jennifer Lopez

Somewhere in the background of magnificence lurks the kitchen staff. But a magnificent person only forgets about his origins, never his brunch. — Bauvard

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

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. — Kid Rock

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background. — Sid Meier

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. — Annie Lennox

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. — P.G. Wodehouse

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 roads
I 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

To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio. — Bob Latta

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

One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like. — Katie Leung

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking. — Jon Bernthal

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

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know? — Alessia Cara

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life. — Saul Bellow

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

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York ... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye you lizard scum! Bye! — Bill Hicks

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

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years. — Lake Bell

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

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker

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

The discipline of desire is the background of character. — John Locke

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

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. — Bobby Vinton

The Strict Father model takes as background the view that life is difficult and that the world is fundamentally dangerous. — George Lakoff

Don't let your background or commitment to your own tradition make you fearful of joining in the adventure the Holy Spirit prepares for you. — Wesley Hill

Do you, and the rest is background noise. — Grace Gealey