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God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.
Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.
I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
Americans of all backgrounds and in all kinds of circumstances are stressed out by feeling overwhelmed and being over-committed.
I've been lucky that I haven't encountered much adversity growing up in London and having friends from all different backgrounds.
I'll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you've got to have that mentality and personality. I'd rather be the bass guy.
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.
I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
Although I had a private education at secondary level, I went to a local primary school where I mixed with kids of all backgrounds.
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
If I did one thing, I made cooking rock n' roll: I made it sexy. I made young kids from rich backgrounds want to come into my world.
With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
Im 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.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.
The best thing about this country is the difference in all of us. We all come from different backgrounds. It's a really beautiful thing.
Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.
I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.
Both my husband and I come from very modest backgrounds. He's obviously done very well, and I've worked hard all my life and done well, too.
People who have theater or sketch-comedy backgrounds seem to be more, you know, our speed. Like Amy Poehler and Will Arnett - we double date.
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.
Our nation is comprised of many different backgrounds and cultures, one of the many things that makes me immensely proud to be a South African.
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.
One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
One of the things I do really appreciate is that my audiences tend to be a wide range of ages and backgrounds, and I ascribe that to putting in the hours.
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to me.
Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.