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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
Kobe Bryant
You
Will
Parents
Group
Backbone
Only
Support
Still
Score
Zero
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
LeRoy Neiman
Time
You
Better
Think
Backbone
Draw
Drawing
Able
Well
Just
Painter
I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.
Lee Daniels
Strong
Partner
Incredible
Backbone
Danny
Eye
See
Writer
He
Really
Painful
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Lucy Powell
Faith
Prosperity
Long
Backbone
System
Has-Been
Been
Loss
Banking
Banking System
Growth
Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back.
Mark Sanford
Job
Holding
Creation
Back
Our
Backbone
Carolina
Job Creation
Rate
Small
Potential
Small Businesses
Highest
Got
South
South Carolina
Effectively
Southeast
Maximizing
Tax
Tax Rate
Us
Businesses
Income
Income Tax
Trucking is the backbone of U.S. commerce. Consumers rely on the industry to move the parts for their cars, the food for their dinner tables, and, increasingly, the goods they order online.
Mary Pilon
Food
Car
Dinner
Increasingly
Backbone
Tables
Online
Rely
Consumers
Goods
Industry
Parts
Commerce
Move
Order
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.
Matt Haig
Great
Travel
Science
Physics
Great Things
Space
Sense
Engineering
Every
Think
Our
Everything
Backbone
Those
Would
Area
Lead
Understood
Math
Maths
Improving
Space Travel
Root
Things
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Michael F. Easley
Education
Backbone
Uncommon
Economy
Because
Making
Priority
Successful
Workforce
Competitive
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
Michael Patrick King
Me
Women
Writing
Backbone
Way
Writers
Had
Know
Female
Always
Cultivated
Been
Years
Five
Six
Room
Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.
Mike Crapo
Strong
Resting
National
Saving
Meet
Appropriate
Backbone
Broader
System
Responsibilities
Must
About
Thriving
Federal
Simpler
Investing
Individuals
Participate
Economy
Fairer
Without
Revenue
Discussion
Tax
Decentralized
Tax System
Businesses
Base
Sufficient
Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents.
Miriam Margolyes
Confidence
Parents
Enormous
Backbone
Given
Only
Only Child
Spoilt
Upbringing
Child
Loved
Amount
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson
Spiritual
You
Backbone
See
Thriller
Ever
There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson
Faith
Religion
Nothing
Christian
Every
Side
Backbone
Way
Extremists
Muslim
Some
Something
Mormonism
Weird
Lot
Using
Fundamentalists
Twisted
Britain is a proud nation of entrepreneurs, and small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
Priti Patel
Nation
Our
Backbone
Small
Small Businesses
Entrepreneurs
Economy
Proud
Businesses
Britain
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
Rick Boucher
Communication
Law
Internet
First
Research
Other
Relating
Prohibited
Backbone
Inside
Restriction
Scientific
Educational
Overturn
Than
Legislation
Being
Anything
Produced
Bill
Used
Being Used
We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.
Rob Simmons
Women
Opportunities
Increase
Everyone
Our
Backbone
Small
Small Businesses
Economy
Because
Got
Help
Businesses
Helping
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.
Ruben Hinojosa
Life
Quality
Natural
Weather
Natural Disasters
Profit
Our
Strike
Backbone
Must
Wreak
More
Economic
Havoc
Economy
Disasters
Quality Of Life
Contend
Than
Reports
Viability
Much
Farms
Assist
Margins
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Today
Money
Agriculture
Will
Our
Backbone
Main
Main Source
Economy
Source
South
Oil
Should
Use
Sudan
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
Shia LaBeouf
Mom
Family
Backbone
Families
Just
Many
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.
Sloan Wilson
Education
Me
Men
Pay
Backbone
Kids
Jobs
Phrase
Mortgage
Contempt
America
Get
Any
Commute
Who
Coin
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.
Steve Albini
Music
Bass
Resonant
Late
Backbone
Machine
Slightly
Classic
Drum
Retro
Tracks
Sound
Hip-Hop
Lot
Very
Used
Deep
Popular
Early
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.
Sue Kelly
Business
Money
Earn
Our
Backbone
Jobs
Collecting
Outdated
Percent
Small
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Small Businesses
Could
Individual
New
Economy
Were
Provide
Ban
Same
Owners
Interest
Held
Should
Business Owners
Businesses
Keeping
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen
Family
Business
Our
Backbone
Small
Small Businesses
Communities
Farms
Businesses
I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.
Tom Douglas
People
Care
Think
Backbone
Taken
Feel
Like
Go
Up
Where
Places
Workers
Stand
Stand Up
Need
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.
Trent Lott
People
Young
Military
Our
Backbone
Generations
Taking
Highly
Force
Greatest
Motivated
Truly
America
Place
Young People
Who
Military Force
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
Happy
Memory
Mind
Backbone
Those
Moral
About
Seems
No Memory
Lead
Clear
Greater
Question
Literature
Much
Who
Whole
Lives
Chance
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