Top 1200 Background Checks Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

Checks aren't money.

I know Democrats who have written Lindsey Graham checks.

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

I started in the club route. I did the alternative scene later on. When I lived in New York, I did the Luna Lounge and stuff, where Janeane Garofalo and David Cross and all those guys worked out of, but I came from a comedy club background. I'm proud of that background. I'm one of the people that really crossed over and did both.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route and some people come from a theatrical background and some people come from a writing background, but I directed commercials

In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

For sure I think the traditional martial arts is a good background to have and definitely allows me to do a lot different things inside the cage. My wrestling background definitely helps me out a lot, but I don't think either one led directly to MMA.

Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

When you're rich you don't write checks.

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.

Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

All I've got to do is win at the end of the day and the checks keep coming in.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

You know, it helps having an African American driver behind the wheel. I'm representing that culture and that background. But a lot of background pressure, I don't really put that on me. I know I have enough pressure to go out and perform every week.

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.

Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.

I've got to tell you, I haven't received any $500,000 checks lately.

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.

Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks

When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

I think it's a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn't matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them. I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.