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One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.
David Draiman
Business
Year
Profit
Nursing
Ran
Background
Several
Administrator
Degrees
Facility
Healthcare
Dollars
Years
Them
Skilled
Million
Million Dollars
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.
David Hogg
History
People
Gun
Country
Own
Criminal
Background
Citizens
Guns
Law-Abiding
Law-Abiding Citizens
Mental
Mental Illness
Prevents
Simply
Still
Legislation
Owning
Want
Illness
I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have a criminal background that are mentally unstable and have a history of domestic violence are no longer able to get a gun.
David Hogg
History
Gun
Criminal
Background
Able
Mental
Mental Illness
Mentally
Push
Individuals
Unstable
Longer
Make
Sure
Domestic
Reform
Get
Trying
Illness
Violence
Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.
David Millar
Survival
Background
Some
Objective
Main
Days
Know
Sport
Going
Awful
Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.
David Morrell
People
Hell
Down
Think
Thinking
Way
Background
Thriller
Write
Exciting
Real
Real People
Maybe
Just
Anybody
Happening
Happens
Story
Should
Who
Novel
Whom
Things
Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.
David Sax
Matter
Our
Background
Ourselves
Must
Split
Identity
Read
Forces
Answer
Been
Question
Ask
Us
Asked
Certain
Your
Who
Even
Why
Among
Second
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
David Stern
Lawyer
Own
Background
Ripping
My Own
League
Up
Basketball
I'm very grateful for the career that I've had. And I'm very grateful for the experiences that 'Star Trek' has afforded me, along with my past background.
DeForest Kelley
Me
Grateful
Past
Trek
Background
Had
Along
Very
Afforded
Experiences
Star
Star Trek
Career
I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
Debi Mazar
Hope
Food
You
Humble
Path
Trouble
Right Path
Back
Background
Destitute
Running
Given
Food Stamps
Fed
Had
Come
Like
Mission
Know
Gotten
Been
Up
Friends
Very
Grew
Places
Midnight
Them
Stamps
Many
Right
As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'
Deborah Ann Woll
Me
You
Human Being
Hair
Way
Background
Say
Loner
Push
Disappeared
Red
Fair
Suppose
Always
Been
Exist
Blonde
Human
Just
Being
Aside
Skinned
Here
At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
Dee Dee Warwick
Work
Time
Good
Money
Background
Making
Doing
Demos
Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
Deepika Padukone
Sports
Fighter
Background
Easily
Give
Because
Am
Up
Maybe
I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.
Demi Moore
Background
Entered
Having
Acting
Connection
Career
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
Denise Mina
Parents
Background
Both
Had
Combination
Odd
Were
Upbringing
Privileged
Families
Working-Class
Position
I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.
Derek Hough
Work
You
Respect
People
Background
Come
Always
Where
Movie
Theatrical
Working
Play
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
Derek Walcott
Good
Age
Writing
Strong
Mother
Father
Background
Write
He
Academic
Schoolteacher
Very
Very Early Age
Died
Childhood
Used
Early
Early Age
I come from a blue collar background.
Devin Townsend
Background
Collar
Come
Blue
Blue-Collar
I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.
Dhanush
Work
Day
Director
Youth
Humble
Father
Become
Meal
Took
Meet
Background
Jobs
Only
Small
Could
Had
He
Part
Come
Make
Odd
Odd Jobs
His
Up
Very
Afford
Ends
Room
Worked
Really
Hard
Large
Large Part
Lived
Mill
Assistant
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
Diane Kruger
Myself
Women
World
Beauty
Background
All Women
Idea
Feel
Over
Like
Accessibility
Accessible
Coming
Should
Products
I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.
Dick Gephardt
Me
People
Simple
School
Parents
Think
Background
Kid
High
Born
High School
More
Through
David
Household
Am
South
Lot
Up
Very
Louis
Get
St. Louis
Blue
Grew
Modest
Much
Show
Who
Suit
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.
Didier Drogba
Great
France
Background
Proof
Having
Footballer
Named
Proud
Integration
Ivory
Stadium
After
Coast
Even
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
Life
Alone
My Life
Skin
Background
Immigrant
Border
Rather
Color
Learned
How
Chicago
Up
Friendships
Quickly
Suburbs
Stand
Growing
Growing Up
Peculiar
Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.
Dinesh Paliwal
Business
Engineering
Background
Logically
Ability
Properly
Individuals
Make
Within
Context
Fit
Being
Decisions
Plan
CEO
Skill
Requires
Specific
Set
Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
Dionne Bromfield
Me
Age
People
Believe
Everyone
Background
Telling
About
Ten
More
Could
Likely
Sing
Always
Them
Less
Mum
Shy
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
Donald Johanson
Family
Training
Mother
Church
Our
Background
Religious
Never
Had
Part
She
Up
Very
Any
Interaction
Grew
Social
Social Interaction
Aware
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
Donella Meadows
Politics
Political
Energy
Every
Analysis
Background
Case
Shaped
Well
Policy
Well Known
Forces
Known
Foreground
Self-Serving
Loud
Energy Policy
Two
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