Different Backgrounds Quotes:

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

- Sofia Coppola

topic: People, Different, Moments, Different Backgrounds

I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, People, Different Backgrounds, Different Cultures

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

- George Lopez

source: "George Lopez enters the talk show wars". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2009.

topic: Black And White, Ethnicity, People, Different Backgrounds

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Women, People, Parent, Different Backgrounds, Downgrading

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

- Michael Sandel

source: "What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel - review" by John Lanchester, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

topic: What Matters, People, Perfect, Different Backgrounds, Common Life

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

- Ernest Istook

topic: America, Goal, People, Different Backgrounds, Common Language

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful

- Michelle Obama

topic: Beautiful, Where You Come, Matter, You Are Beautiful, Different Backgrounds

The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

- Pete Cashmore

source: "Pete Cashmore of MASHABLE". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Issues, People, Way, Different Backgrounds

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

- Zainab Salbi

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Views, Different Experiences, Diversity, Different Backgrounds

What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

- Barack Obama

source: First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

topic: Jobs, Children, Differences, Different Backgrounds, Different Beliefs

When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Attitude, Heart, People, Different Backgrounds

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

- Desi Arnaz

source: Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

topic: Two, People, Together, Different Backgrounds

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

- Josh Charles

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Play, Different, Orientation, Different Backgrounds

I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.

- Brit Marling

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, California, People, Different Backgrounds

I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I wanted to do that, but to talk about ourselves through the eyes of an immigrant. The film takes place in the school and it tells us a little bit about who we are and where we're at, but through the eyes of someone who has a different background.

- Philippe Falardeau

topic: Eye, School, Immigration, Different Backgrounds

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

- Brie Larson

source: "Room's Brie Larson Talks Oscar Buzz, Amy Schumer, and Her "Hilarious" 13 Going on 30 Cameo". Interview with Ashley Spencer, www.usmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

topic: Different, Path, Stage, Different Backgrounds

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

- Mike Dirnt

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: Different Backgrounds

In Texas, you just learn just be nice to people and respect them, and respect where they're coming from. And understand people have different backgrounds and opinions, and there's nothing you could do about it. And that's what I've realized to shape, I guess, who I am.

- Jordan Spieth

topic: Nice, Texas, Who I Am, Different Backgrounds, Be Nice To People

I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?

- Eboo Patel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Buddhist, Mean, Reality, Different Backgrounds

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

- Star Jones

source: "CNN Live Today" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 30, 2006.

topic: Different Experiences, Together, Groups, Different Backgrounds, Barbara

We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

- Barack Obama

source: Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

topic: Inspiring, Dream, Country, Different Backgrounds

I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

- Judy Blume

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Girl, Summer, Children, Different Backgrounds

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

- Ernest Istook

topic: Father, Son, America, Different Backgrounds

I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

- ASAP Rocky

topic: Rap, Artist, Thinking, My Generation, Different Backgrounds

Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

- Robert Winston

topic: Children, Numbers, Giving, January 1, Different Backgrounds

I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

- Sonia Braga

topic: New York, Character, Aquarius, Different Backgrounds, Clara

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!

- Kabir Bedi

source: Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

topic: America, Effort, Together, Milkshakes, National Identity

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

- Junaid Jamshed

source: Source: irusa.org

topic: Country, People, Different, Different Backgrounds, Walks Of Life

I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Country, Men, Thinking, Different Backgrounds, Different Races

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

- Van Jones

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Self, Diversity, Black, Different Backgrounds, Green Movement

I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.

- John Boyega

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Artist, Cities, People, Inner City, Different Backgrounds

Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: War, Isis, Organization, Different Backgrounds

The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

- Erdem Moral?oglu

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Dresses, Different, Able, Different Backgrounds

When you have two different women coming from two very different backgrounds, it's fun for us because we get to explore how each one of them approaches their job and how they bring their own experiences to it.

- Sasha Alexander

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Jobs, Fun, Two, Different Backgrounds

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

- Irene Rosenfeld

topic: Believe, Facts, Determined, Servant Leadership, Different Backgrounds

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

- Susan Lucci

topic: Mother, Father, Italian, Swedish, Descent

I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

- Eboo Patel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Baby, Couple, Bosnians, Different Backgrounds

In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we all put those differences aside. Fundamentally, I believe that’s what the American people expect of Congress as well. We all ought to be able to come together in Washington and do what’s best for our America.

- Seth Moulton

source: "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

topic: Country, Religious, Believe, Different Backgrounds, Political Beliefs

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

- Lucy Walker

source: "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

topic: Ambition, People, Different, Different Backgrounds

It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

- Paul Gigot

source: Source: www.wsj.com

topic: Football, Country, Player, Different Backgrounds

I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

- Russell Simmons

topic: Commitment, Careers, People, Different Backgrounds, Music Lover

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

- Ed Miliband

topic: Country, School, Thinking, Different Backgrounds, Different Faiths

The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various "modern" C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.

- John Carmack

source: "John Carmack discusses RAGE on iPhone/iPad/iPod" by John Carmack, www.bethblog.com. October 26, 2010.

topic: Games, Design, Suffering, Different Backgrounds, Escalation

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

- Julian Fellowes

topic: Mother, Father, Parent, Different Backgrounds

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

- George W. Bush

source: "A Charge to Keep". Book by George W. Bush, 1999.

topic: Country, Humor, Yale, Different Backgrounds, Political Humor

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Writing, Different, Culture, Different Backgrounds

Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above all, we can bring people with different backgrounds and different knowledge together to discuss our problems. This actually gives me hope. I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Children, Smart, Home, Different Backgrounds

For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.

- Daniel Radcliffe

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Writing, Thinking, Two, Different Backgrounds

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

- Slash

topic: Interesting, Trying, Pairs, Different Backgrounds