#backgrounds

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. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#car #does #front #hotel #hotel room

We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#class #coming #conservative #diverse #extremely

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#aspirations #backgrounds #better #education #guarantee

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#america #any #backgrounds #divided #east

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

#america #around #backgrounds #common #common language

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 the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#beginning #did #get #i #i think

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#apply #backgrounds #close #come #course

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#find #going #joining #jumping #kids

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#accident #america #backgrounds #century #democratic