“At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.” HomeKidsSchoolStageMembersHigh SchoolBackgroundsLoudTeensPregnantGangMarry MeHigh School GraduationWere PregnantGang MembersSchool Graduation Author:Portia de Rossi
“The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.” PeopleThinkingMenWarSeemsActionTogetherMilitaryMembersNormalEuropeCriminalsBackgroundsDistinctionGood ManDivisionMilitary ActionGeorgians Author:Jeff Cooper
“All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.” PeopleCountryPhilosophyStrongCommonTeamShareMembersCommitmentAgreeBackgroundsOur CountryOfficialsTerritoryDiversePrincipalGoverningPragmatism Author:Donald Tsang
“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.” FirstsWarSchoolFatherForceOpinionClassMiddleMilitaryMembersMy FamilyUniversityConservativeBritishBackgroundsBrokeMiddle ClassTypicalNavyJoiningArmed ForcesMobilityNavalPrivate SchoolUpward Mobility Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.” MayHas BeensArtTwoBookRunningPoliticalFoundSocialMy OwnMembersPagesCongressPhilosopherLawyerCampaignsBackgroundsHistorianYellowAcademicThreatenedTelephonesLiberal ArtsGood Lawyer Book:Up'til Now: A Memoria Source: Up'til Now: A Memoria
“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonHappensInterestingGroupsMembersBackgroundsCaliforniaExploringCultDifferent Backgrounds Author:Brit Marling
“[James] Comey's got a good background but there's nothing there, so far as it appears. Nothing there. So he wrote the letter to the eight Republican committee members copied to the Democrats saying 'you know some emails have turned up, we've looked at a lot of emails now it turns out there are even more emails - we don't know what's there, so there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that could be of interest to anyone until we conduct our multi-week, multi-month investigation.” KnowsTurnsInterestWeekMonthsRepublicanMembersEvidenceLettersDemocratEightBackgroundsInvestigationCommitteesEmail Author:William Weld