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Jai Ganesh

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Background Quotes

Background Quotes

1. No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. - Ayn Rand

3. I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background. - Christina Aguilera

4. At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. - Nelson Mandela

5. My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. - Brad Pitt

6. I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance. - Keanu Reeves

7. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. - Melinda Gates

8. Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that. - Sean Connery

9. The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days. - Satyajit Ray

10. I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood. - Anne Hathaway

11. My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. - Elon Musk

12. In all the background scores I do, I take care to see that the theme enriches the storyline and does not deviate from the mood of the scenes, context, characters and the entire movie. - Vidyasagar

13. The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score. - Ilaiyaraaja

14. I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. - Salma Hayek

15. Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. - Angelina Jolie

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

17. Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter. - Deepika Padukone

18. Not coming from a film background, be it a teeny-weeny role or a big role, I have done it with a lot of dignity and fought my way through. But the only thing that kept me going is that I am the sort of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If someone rejects me, I will be out to prove that person wrong in my own way. - Shilpa Shetty

19. I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere. - Mariah Carey

20. Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. - Sachin Tendulkar

21. I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. - Maria Sharapova

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

23. The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens! - Abhishek Bachchan

24. The media picks on me because I don't have a family background like other female leaders of South Asia. Look at Indira Gandhi, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina. They were all someone's daughter or wife. I have no such background. - J. Jayalalithaa

25. Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background. - Buzz Aldrin

26. I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I. - Emma Watson

27. I entered this career having no background or connection to acting. - Demi Moore

28. I have a dance background. I have an athletic background. - John Travolta

29. When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world. - Anushka Sharma

30. Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. - Clint Eastwood.

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