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Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.
Buzz Aldrin
Government
Experience
Pilot
Will
Military
Background
Those
Astronauts
Ideally
Mission
Always
Test
Test Pilot
Pilots
Want
Either
Should
Working
Who
Specialists
Need
I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
Camila Alves
Work
Simple
Father
Pay
Background
Say
Out
Had
Come
Call
Get
Bills
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
Carl Hiaasen
News
Culture
Journalist
Country
Background
One Aspect
All-Around
Magnitude
Investigation
Terminated
Around
Got
Coverage
Celebrity
Overwhelmed
Celebrity Culture
America
Being
Newspapers
Us
Aspect
Teams
Shrinking
Shrunk
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana
Day
You
Every Day
Wake Up
Rest
Every
Lyrical
Background
Okay
Laurels
Simplistic
Been
Wake
Up
Very
Accused
Just
Transcend
Being
Blues
Which
Your
Ever
Player
My dad was a wrestler back in the early '90s, so it just brought everything full circle with my dad's background and my love of performing and entertainment, and now here I am in the WWE.
Carmella
Love
Entertainment
Circle
Back
Everything
Background
Brought
Wrestler
Performing
WWE
Am
Just
Full
Dad
Now
Early
Here
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
Caroline Corr
Time
Musical
Background
About
Had
Know
Drums
Well
Still
Lot
If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?
Carrie Lam
Party
Background
Ensure
Executive
She
How
Chief
Chief Executive
Cannot
Team
Wholeheartedly
United
Her
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
Casey Kasem
Living
Background
Could
Knew
Make
Because
Theater
Acting
Radio
Actor
The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.
Cecile Richards
Women
Political
Walk
Every
Background
Parenthood
Come
Clinics
Persuasion
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Who
For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
Chad Hugo
Best
Me
Opportunity
Wave
Background
Hiding
Had
Discredit
Get
Trying
American
Flag
Just
Anything
American Flag
Asian
Asian-American
'House of Wax' is a remake, but 'House of Wax' is very different. It's like a background concept, but it's a completely different story.
Chad Michael Murray
Wax
Background
Remake
Like
Concept
House
Very
Different
Story
Different Story
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
Chaim Potok
Work
Strong
Early Work
Later
Background
Diminish
Religious
Some
Tends
Foreground
Very
Certainly
Present
Early
So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.
Charles B. Rangel
First
Background
John
Could
Firearms
Individuals
Implemented
Checks
Like
First Place
Were
Deaths
Expand
Place
Measures
Many
Keep
Ever
Buying
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
Charles Kennedy
Education
Family
Opportunity
First
Pay
Everyone
Background
Further
Ability
See
Able
About
Struggling
Students
Learn
First Place
Off
Huge
Debts
Frightened
Family Background
Going
Want
Regardless
Place
Should
Who
Even
University
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
Charles Lindbergh
Life
Background
Wildness
Ancestral
We Cannot
Ourselves
Must
Civilization
Never
Never Forget
Primitive
Forget
Human
Cannot
Centuries
Created
Separate
Should
Human Life
Nourished
Based
Millions
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
Charles Stross
Work
Situation
Humour
Background
Response
Tend
Protagonist
Principle
Matching
Foreground
Being
Inappropriate
Much
Cognitive
My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.
Charlie Haden
Music
Family
Me
Hillbilly
Mountains
Musical
Background
Part
Over
Because
Came
Ireland
Very
Scotland
Where
Influenced
Appalachian
England
Dad
Deeply
Raised
Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.
Cherie Blair
Money
Gone
Live
Everyone
Mine
Background
Week
Like
Well
Box
Am
Lot
End
Did
Where
Place
Formed
Cardboard
Cardboard Box
As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
Chevy Stevens
Business
Experience
Writing
Treat
Background
Emotional
Well
Coming
Much
The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.
Chita Rivera
Better
Heritage
Else
Background
Does
Than
Role
Person
Get
Anyone
Anyone Else
Regardless
Should
Who
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
Chris Hayes
Teacher
Class
Mother
Father
Community
Background
Come
Working
Organizer
Working-Class
I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
Chris Isaak
Travel
Money
Thought
Military
Background
Small
Thrilled
Join
Small Town
Town
Come
Get
Where
Europe
I never want to hide my wrestling background.
Chris Jericho
Hide
Background
Wrestling
Never
Want
Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.
Chris Murphy
Our
Background
Cities
Would
Guns
Take
Checks
Off
Illegal
Streets
Applied
Millions
Universally
I don't require a background check to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans.
Chris Murphy
People
Background
Backgrounds
Given
Both
Unsavory
Check
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Campaign
Lots
Contribute
Republicans
Require
Who
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
Christian Bale
Me
People
Try
Damn
Teenager
Way
Background
Some
Someone
Gives
Fade
Disappear
Attention
Feel
Invisible
Like
Him
Get
Just
Wanted
Wants
Notice
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