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This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States military interventions. - Ulrich Beck Quotes
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. - Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes
Well, you got to realize that I have no scientific background so, you know, all the scientific mumbo jumbo doesnt mean a lot to me. - Arthur Rock Quotes
I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him. - Alton Brown Quotes
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. - Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. - Eugenio Montale Quotes
Its something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I dont care where youre from, what you are, what background you come from - theres something there for you. - Billy Higgins Quotes
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. - Gregory Corso Quotes
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. - William James Quotes
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. - James S Coleman Quotes
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. - Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes
Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion. - David Crane Quotes
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. - Brian Eno Quotes
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. - Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Normans upbringing. - Joseph Stefano Quotes
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. - Hans Frank Quotes
My mothers background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. - David Brin Quotes
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. - Yahoo Serious Quotes
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. - Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. - John Thorn Quotes
My background was in performing originally. - Cy Coleman Quotes
My background for obtaining these ideas was uh, there was a I went to the school at Berkeley and there was a thing called Project Genie at Berkeley. - Ken Thompson Quotes
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I dont see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. - Frederick Pollock Quotes
The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on peoples mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing. - Werner Klemperer Quotes
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. - Sally Ride Quotes
If I get blocked, it is generally because I dont know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they dont have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type. - Gary Cole Quotes
I wasnt a great background singer. - Faith Hill Quotes
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters. - Uwe Boll Quotes
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