#background

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

#america #around #backgrounds #bilingual #come

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

#acting #ad #background #because #career

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

#background #brother #brother and sister #chance #dad

I've sung background for a couple of bands. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#bands #couple #i #sung

My background is in health care. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#care #health #health care

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #coming #i #jazz #know

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#books #gave #i #logic #mathematics

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing. ↗

— Werner Klemperer

#fact #frank #i #irrelevant #know

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#background #become #criticism #forgotten #gestures