Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

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

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

'Give me your poor.' It didn't say, 'Give me your poor who can afford a $680 citizenship.' If I had my way, it would be free. If I had my way, the state would subsidize every eligible application, period.

It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

With anybody we're looking to draft, we do an extensive amount of work on their background, history and all that.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

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

Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.

You can't compare my background to the Gracies', not only in technique, but in terms of business and marketing.

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.

No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the bare minimum I need to start the story, and often that really is a bare minimum - it's a character in a situation, and I know nothing about the character, I know nothing about the situation, and then I think about it for a long time, and make notes about where I think the story is going to go and so on, but I don't really make notes to do with the background or the magic system or the world.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.

My background is as an athlete, and you know, we in the Marines, when we want something, we go after it.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

But I'm grateful for everything I've got and I think that's part of my working-class background.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

I don't come from a film background. so I am grateful to everyone who loves my work.

I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.

We came from a humble background but with a lot of love, so we were able to overcome that.

All students, no matter their background, benefit from having a diverse classroom experience.

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.

I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.

People make very many comments in life when they don't have the background or the knowledge.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Having our own children in good schools does not inure us from the ill-effect of others having theirs in poor schools. Having great roads within our gated homes and offices does not help when our fancy cars spill out on to poor public roads.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

I never wanted to become an actress. I come from an air force background.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.