Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.
I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.
I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning,of rain and wind,of the galaxies,of the suns and the starsand the void through which they travel. The essence of nature,eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear,known as the great illusion time,and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.
The idea of listening to a record that's in one generic style, it becomes quite boring after the third or fourth song, in my opinion. It just becomes a bit. . . when you've got the same arrangement on a song, your ears get tired. I come from a DJ background and it's about trying to put songs together that don't fit necessarily but you can get away with putting them next to each other. I think of myself as a punter and ask myself: what would I like to hear?
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation
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.
My background is Scottish.
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors. . . When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.