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Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
Michael D. Barnes
You
Waiting
Car
Drive
Same Thing
Background
Guns
Checks
Know
Periods
Safely
Pass
How
Test
Same
Should
Your
Shows
Thing
People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.
Michael Dirda
Book
People
Approach
Background
Write
Know
Read
Always
How
Reviews
Authority
Tastes
Mean
Believable
Right
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.
Michael Eisner
Noise
Will
Every
Background
Point
Point Of View
Consumer
Simply
Come
Content
Without
Editorial
Oversight
Brand
Different
View
Eventually
Appreciate
I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.
Michael Gove
Myself
Business
Father
Own
Background
Destroyed
Destroys
Jobs
My Own
Had
Know
Employment
Policy
Common
I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
Michael Heizer
Myself
Background
Promoting
Come
Academic
Raised
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.
Michael Imperioli
Writing
Thought
Else
Background
Completed
Worthy
Tried
Write
Never
Prose
Look
Fiction
Anyone
Screenplays
Anyone Else
Anything
Really
Even
Publication
I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.
Michael Kelly
Politics
Crazy
People
Before
Think
Too
Digging
Way
Background
Kid
See
Shady
Stuff
Up
Very
Bands
Get
Want
Them
Far
Started
You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
Michael Nutter
You
Gun
National
Background
System
Would
Purchase
Weapon
Able
Civilian
More
Fact
Check
Know
Parts
Go
Escape
Any
Procedures
Place
Really
Regulations
Reasonable
Assault
Why
Ever
Strengthening
Need
I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
Michael Patrick Jann
Funny
Sports
Videos
Group
Funny Stuff
Guess
Background
Out
Charge
Stuff
Come
Got
Coming
Friends
Get
Shooting
Same
Hanging
Them
My family was very notorious in the town that we lived in. Everyone would say, 'There goes those damn Sams.' I didn't want to paint that ill picture of me. I knew the good in my family. They didn't know our background and the adversity we had to endure. I wanted to succeed and be a beacon of hope in my family.
Michael Sam
Hope
Good
Adversity
Family
Me
Picture
Damn
Everyone
Our
Background
Say
Those
Would
Beacon
Had
Knew
Town
Know
Very
Goes
Want
Endure
Wanted
Succeed
Notorious
Ill
Paint
Lived
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
Michael Shannon
Bible
People
Mother
Church
Herself
Background
Religious
Religious People
About
More
Never
Also
She
Read
Known
Issue
Private
Prayed
Lot
Up
Very
Personal
Flamboyant
Just
Much
Growing
Growing Up
Believers
Her
Kept
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
Michael Stipe
Music
Day
You
People
World
Fans
Music Fans
Background
Those
About
Divide
Through
Casual
Very
Wallpaper
Just
Lovers
Them
Then
Who
Helps
Elevator
Thing
Playing
'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying.
Michaela Coel
Dreams
Character
Too Late
World
Girl
Too
Worldly
Everybody
Late
Background
Embark
East
Out
Finding
Gum
Pentecostal
London
About
Adolescence
More
Lifestyle
Terrifying
Years
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Sitcom
Estate
Decide
Central
Realising
Who
Watching
Set
Imagined
When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Nature
Man
Words
Space
Will
Lost
Background
Reconciled
True
Longer
Concepts
Becomes
His
Them
Meaning
Use
I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.
Michele Bachmann
Work
Education
Faith
Family
Experience
People
Think
Background
Those
Has-Been
About
Individual
Factors
Take
Voters
Look
Because
Been
Curious
American
Candidate
Want
American People
Measure
Who
People have a false understanding of what our legal system is like - how it works/operates - from shows like 'Law and Order,' which suggest that lawyers appear on demand and do a tremendous amount of investigation and background research.
Michelle Alexander
Legal
People
Law
Understanding
Research
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Our
Background
System
Law And Order
Lawyers
Investigation
Demand
Like
How
False
Legal System
Order
Which
Appear
Shows
Amount
Suggest
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
Michelle Monaghan
Class
School
Background
Ourselves
Through
Factory
Put
Come
Years
Very
Worked
Working
Working-Class
Dad
The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate.
Michelle Trachtenberg
Love
Good
Food
You
Cheese
Background
Plenty
Bad
Russian
Potatoes
Like
Fried
Interesting
Really
Plate
It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.
Michelle Yeoh
Best
You
Experience
Try
Dance
New Things
Fighting
Action
Films
Everyone
Background
About
Had
New
Stunt
Very
Afford
Being
Wanted
Really
Acting
Agile
Action Films
Coordinated
Routine
Thing
Things
I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.
Mickey Drexler
Background
Someone
Hire
Waiters
Lot
Predictable
Successful
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
Mickey Rourke
Myself
Abandonment
Made
Feeling
Way
Background
Shame
Had
Come
Became
Deal
Realised
Hard
Violent
If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.
Mike deGruy
Work
You
Behavior
Animals
Field
Background
Wildlife
Bit
Out
About
Know
How
Behaviors
Going
Who
Helps
Film
Fundamental
Filmmaker
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
Mindy Kaling
School
Our
Background
Musicals
High
Photos
Wearing
High School
Costume
Never
Obsessed
Beggar
Achieved
Being
Deep
Popular
I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my existence throughout my family experiences at home of just kind of blending in in the background through my other siblings, which was easy to do.
Misty Copeland
Best
Home
Family
Other
Background
Kind
Easy
Through
Throughout
Blend
Blending
Existence
Just
Want
Experiences
Wanted
Just Kind
Anything
Which
Sibling
Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
Life
Value
Gender
Every
Background
Equal
Regardless
To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.
Mona Eltahawy
Faith
Religion
Despise
Background
Those
About
Write
Share
Step
Piece
Opinions
Cultural
Begins
Cloth
Ends
Who
Even
Whom
Among
Symbol
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