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I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.
Ben Domenech
Background
Religious
Had
Came
Conventional
Board
Across
Views
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
Bennie Thompson
Today
Background
Share
Particular
Terrorists
Educational
Ethnic
My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.
Beth Riesgraf
Sports
Dance
Background
Kidding
Some
Came
Lot
Child
Did
Really
Play
Actually
What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
Betsy Hodges
Fire
Advice
Holding
Background
Allies
Feet
Also
Call
Partners
Does
Mayor
Mean
Means
Organizing
Who
Whom
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
Bill Paxton
Age
Background
Demented
Normal
Very
Very Early Age
Early
Early Age
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
Billy Corgan
Family
Class
Background
Immigrants
Were
Middle
Middle Class
Lower
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
Billy Higgins
You
Care
Few
Jazz
Background
Something
Come
Go
Few Things
Listen
Where
Things
Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
Blake Mycoskie
Success
Time
Best
You
Business
People
World
Better
Remember
Giving
Important
Background
Give
Better Place
Part
Step
Investment
Mission
Most
Make
Venture
Sure
Important Step
Yearn
Contribute
Same
Any
May
Same Time
The Most Important
Story
Place
Might
Your
Ever
I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.
Bob Dole
Service
Thought
Congress
Enough
Presidency
Ran
Background
Would
Would-Be
Sure
Up
Really
Growing
Growing Up
To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio.
Bob Latta
You
Background
District
Some
Give
Represent
Ohio
Manufacturing
Agricultural
Largest
My background is in health care.
Bobby Jindal
Health
Care
Background
Health Care
I come from an improv background, so the one thing I know when I'm doing 'Chozen' is that whatever he's doing at that exact moment is the only thing he's thinking about, and he will do it until he's conquered it.
Bobby Moynihan
Will
Whatever
Thinking
Background
One Thing
Exact
About
Only
He
Come
Know
Until
Doing
Improv
The One Thing
The Only Thing
Moment
Conquered
Thing
You don't just call a person out to a fight if you don't know their background, what they've been through, and how to test them.
Booker T
You
Fight
Background
Out
Through
Know
Call
How
Test
Been
Person
Just
Them
I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.
Boris Trajkovski
Political
Hatred
President
Background
Intolerance
Citizens
Religious
Shall
Allow
Undermine
Intend
Stability
Regardless
Ethnic
Standing
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
Brad Pitt
Life
Better
Opportunity
Father
Sense
Background
Give
Determined
More
Better Life
Never
Had
He
Make
Sure
Came
Were
Very
Than
Want
Wanted
Poor
Us
Shot
Fortunate
Dad
Things
Need
I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.
Bradley James
Sports
Background
Always
Came
Up
Very
Escapism
Wanted
Grew
Much
Actor
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
Learning
Trouble
Background
Point
Point Of View
Had
Perform
Because
How
Lot
Then
View
Engineers
Whole
Function
Functional
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno
Music
Experience
Thought
Increasingly
Our
Musical
Background
Musical Experience
Ourselves
Find
Composers
Write
Likely
Modern
Represent
Spaces
Which
Places
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno
Me
Rest
Own
Background
Out
My Own
Records
Had
Putting
Idea
Drowning
Singer
Foreground
Making
Interested
Started
James Bridenstine is a climate denier with no scientific background who has made a career out of ignoring science.
Brian Schatz
Science
Made
Background
Out
Scientific
Climate
James
Ignoring
Who
Career
I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.
Brian Wilson
Myself
You
Genius
Singing
Think
Consider
Musical
Background
Vocal
Vocals
Voice
Like
Singer
Sound
Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that's something that I take very seriously.
Brianna Wu
Government
Me
Seriously
Journalist
Background
Something
Gives
Take
Involved
Obviously
Lot
Very
Getting
Whenever
Pause
Speech
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
Bruce Greenwood
Husband
Background
Just
Admitting that we ourselves are bar mitzvah boys is our way of letting non-Jews as well as Jews in the audience know that everything we're doing is meant in good fun; we're having fun with our background and don't want to be taken in the wrong way.
Bryan Fogel
Good
Admitting
Jews
Our
Everything
Way
Background
Ourselves
Having
Having Fun
Taken
Wrong
Wrong Way
Know
Well
Audience
Boy
Doing
Mitzvah
Want
Bar
Bar Mitzvah
Meant
Fun
Letting
Good Fun
I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.
Bryce Dessner
Funny
Music
Whatever
Living
Earning
Background
Out
Classical
Make
Rock
Rock Star
Came
Certain
Certain Level
Teaching
Star
Level
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
Buchi Emecheta
Time
Own
Background
Telling
My Own
Highlight
Make
Sure
Cultural
Same
Same Time
Africa
Stories
Story
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