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I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

Quotes by Jeremy Strong

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Quotes by Jeremy Grantham

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

Quotes by Jean-Philippe Courtois

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

Quotes by Jean M. Auel

I come from a Hasidic background; I am only one generation removed.

Quotes by Jason Fuchs

I come from a very working-class background.

Quotes by Janet Montgomery

I've got a very interesting background.

Quotes by Jackie Chan

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Quotes by Jack Vance

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

I'm a background person.

Quotes by J. J. Cale

There isn't a traditional background of Asian women playing sport, but that's changing.

Quotes by Isa Guha

Cricket is a sport girls can play and be successful in irrespective of their background.

Quotes by Isa Guha

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Quotes by Hervey Allen

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

Quotes by Henry Grunwald

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

Quotes by Henry Golding

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

Quotes by Helen Thomas

I'm of Arab background.

Quotes by Helen Thomas

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

Quotes by Hansika Motwani

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

Quotes by Hans Frank

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

Quotes by Hamish Bowles

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Quotes by Hakeem Olajuwon

Me, coming from a low-income background, I really didn't take my studies serious as a young kid.

Quotes by Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

Quotes by Gustav Stresemann

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.

Quotes by Gretchen Whitmer

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

Quotes by Gregory Corso

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

Quotes by Greg Rucka

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

Quotes by Grace Jones

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

Quotes by Grace Gealey

I came up from a difficult background.

Quotes by Gordon Ramsay

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'

Quotes by Gopi Sundar

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

Quotes by Gio Gonzalez

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

Quotes by George Osborne

I'm a former educator, a veteran, and I have a strong energy and asset background.

Quotes by George P. Bush

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.

Quotes by Geeta Phogat

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

Quotes by Gavin Newsom

I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

Quotes by Faye Marsay

We embrace all of our friends from every background.

Quotes by Farrah Abraham

I wasn't a great background singer.

Quotes by Faith Hill

I have a military background in my family.

Quotes by Eric Reid

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Quotes by Eric Fellner

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Quotes by Ennio Morricone

We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.

Quotes by Emma Gonzalez

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

Quotes by Emeril Lagasse

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Quotes by Elizabeth Emken

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

Quotes by Elizabeth Emken

I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.

Quotes by Eileen Ford

I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

Quotes by Edward Lampert

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Quotes by Edith Wharton

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

Quotes by Drew Scott

I remember taking photographs as the local Gauleiter, Albert Forster, harangued huge crowds of Germans in the evenings with a big swastika flag in the background.

Quotes by Douglas Slocombe

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Quotes by Dorothy Allison

Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.

Quotes by Didier Drogba

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

Quotes by Diane Abbott

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

Quotes by Denise Mina

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Quotes by Della Reese

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Quotes by Demi Moore

I'm very grateful for the career that I've had. And I'm very grateful for the experiences that 'Star Trek' has afforded me, along with my past background.

Quotes by DeForest Kelley

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

Quotes by Deepika Padukone

Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders.

Quotes by David Leitch

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

Quotes by David Lagercrantz

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

Quotes by David Chalmers

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

Quotes by David Boreanaz

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

Quotes by David Brin

Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

Quotes by David A. R. White

Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.

Quotes by Darlene Love

I don't know much about my biological background.

Quotes by Dan Stevens

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

Quotes by Damian McGinty

The background score plays an important role in black comedies.

Quotes by D. Imman

My background was in performing originally.

Quotes by Cy Coleman

Hey, a hard background is not an excuse.

Quotes by Cris Carter

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Quotes by Connie Britton

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

Quotes by Coco Lee

I grew up with a very religious background.

Quotes by Clarence Clemons

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

Quotes by Claire Messud

I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

Quotes by Cindy Morgan

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

Quotes by Chuka Umunna

Undoubtedly Obama's multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold of.

Quotes by Chuka Umunna

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Quotes by Christopher Meloni

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

Quotes by Christina Aguilera

What we do in Connecticut is ban assault weapons. We ban high-capacity magazines. We have true universal background checks, and we require everybody to get a permit from their police department before they can carry a pistol.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

I don't require a background check to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

Quotes by Chris Jericho

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Quotes by Chris Hemsworth

I come from a very strenuous, strict, disciplined classical music background. My grandfather, noted Carnatic classical exponent Dr. Sripada Pinakapani, was a Padma Bhushan recipient.

Quotes by Chinmayi

I'm from a Gypsy background!

Quotes by Cher

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

'House of Wax' is a remake, but 'House of Wax' is very different. It's like a background concept, but it's a completely different story.

Quotes by Chad Michael Murray

One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was working in the '50s. He would make hyper-modern shapes that were sharp retellings of pastoral themes.

Quotes by Caroline Polachek

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

Quotes by Cara Castronuova

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

Quotes by Cameron Russell

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

Quotes by Bruce Rauner

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

Quotes by Breaux Greer

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

Quotes by Bradley James

My background is in health care.

Quotes by Bobby Jindal

I have a background in counseling because I've been to a lot of therapy.

Quotes by Bobby Berk

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

Quotes by Bob Latta

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