Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

I am a strong woman. I come from a background as a prosecutor.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I don't think you have an anti-Israel background when it comes to Donald Trump.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

Whatever my contract situation is, that will be going on in the background.

My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.

I like the fact that I come with a lineage and have a filmi background.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I always put people with my kind of background first.

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

I wanted to get rich, like anyone from my background.

In order to prepare for meaningful change, we have to look at both sides of the problem. We need to examine the output of our political system, which is often very hostile to the poor abroad and hostile also to the poor and middle class domestically. And we must also look at the procedures through which this output is produced.

I have a background in counseling because I've been to a lot of therapy.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

Parents with a West Indian background tend to be more strict.

As I didn't belong from a filmy background, I didn't know how to become an actor.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

I feel like a damehood doesn't happen to people from my background.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we both learn about each other. It's an equal win-win relationship.