Top 1200 Ethnic Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

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

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Media houses should only hire people with a clean background to give their expert opinion.

Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.

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.

Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence

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

I can't tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don't know the background of the investor.

You know, because of my military background, I talk to voters who for the first two minutes think I'm a Republican.

I had a great time playing on '1984.' I felt like I was growing as a player and background singer.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

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

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were exhausted by those properties. Exactly the opposite is the case: the authentic dimension of subjectivity consists not in any positive identity but in that which makes identifications.

If my body can fall into the background for just a second, maybe people will start listening to what I have to say.

You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.

Democrats are fighting to make sure that everyone, no matter your background, has a chance to get ahead.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

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

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.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our ethnic group happens to be, to confront these issues when they arise.

When I go to my constituency - in fact, when I walk around - you can almost now tell somebody's background by their weight.

I want to bring my color and background to the table because it makes life - and entertainment - more interesting.

Where I've come from and my background, to fight at Madison Square Garden against the biggest name in boxing is unbelievable.

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

James Bridenstine is a climate denier with no scientific background who has made a career out of ignoring science.

There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.

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.

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

I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.

I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it.

I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

I think my gymnastic background helped a great deal with my agility when I took up football seriously.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

It just runs through my family, to be honest. I come from a very big musical, entertainment background.

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

Adnan Virk and I work so well together, he's got the terrific background from hosting 'Baseball Tonight.'

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.