Top 1200 Ethnic Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt. People who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non-Arabs'.

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.

My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

As a patron of a youth education charity it is my duty to use my platform as a voice for all, regardless of background.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They're the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.

Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.

I do not come from a filmy background, so it took me a while to understand how this industry works.

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.

It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

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

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.

I come from a background where I have no acting experience and when I did 'Shanti,' I got a lot of support from my parents.

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

I'll continue working to ensure that everyone - regardless of their background - is treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

I'm a gun owner; I'm a hunter, but you know what? I went through background checks myself in order to get it.

I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

We've had enough with the gun shows where you can buy from private sellers with no FBI background check.