Top 1200 Ethnic Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

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.

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.

Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones.

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.

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

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.

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

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

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

I don't endorse people that bash judges based on his ethnic heritage.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

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.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

I like shopping for ethnic wear.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

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.

Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

"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."

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

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,'

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.'

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.

I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.

Even as a kid, I ventured out to ethnic restaurants all the time.

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up!

I happened to get interested in jewelry when an ethnic tendency was reawakening in fashion.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

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.

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

My features are completely ethnic.

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes.

I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

Obama, Bloomberg and nearly every politician and gun-ban zealot pushing for a universal background check system are on record supporting mandatory gun registration, outright bans and even confiscation. To them, 'universal background checks' are just the first step in their long march to destroying our Second Amendment-protected rights.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

I presented a bill that will address a glaring loophole that allows gun buyers to bypass a background check by purchasing guns as kits. These kits allow anyone to purchase a totally untraceable firearm. The act simply says these weapons should be regulated like other firearms and require background checks.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I have come to learn that goodness is transnational, transcultural, and trans-ethnic.