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We've had enough with the gun shows where you can buy from private sellers with no FBI background check.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Background Buy Check Enough Gun Had Had Enough Private Sellers Shows Where You Fbi

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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

Topics: Am Background Blue Born David Get Grew High High School Household Kid Lot Louis Me Modest More Much Parents People School Show Simple South St. Louis Suit Think Through Up Very Who I Think I Am I Was Born

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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

Topics: After Background Coast Even Footballer France Great Having Integration Ivory Named Proof Proud Stadium

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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

Topics: Alone Background Border Chicago Color Friendships Growing Growing Up How Immigrant Learned Life My Life Peculiar Quickly Rather Skin Stand Suburbs Up

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I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Background Catholic Explains Few Hundred Hundred Years India Last Missionaries Name Part Portuguese Raised Visited Which Years Years Ago I Was Raised

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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

Topics: Ability Background Being Business Ceo Context Decisions Engineering Fit Individuals Logically Make Plan Properly Requires Set Skill Specific Within

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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

Topics: About Age Always Background Believe Could Everyone Less Likely Me More Mum People Shy Sing Telling Ten Them

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The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

~Dolores O'Riordan

Topics: Back Background Became Being Hobby Human Human Being Parenthood Person Seat Took Writing

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It's really funny to me that I get called a workhorse or somebody who's really good at making other people better in the ring. I feel like I'm good at every aspect of this. I feel like I'm a great talker; I feel like I'm a great representative of the company. I broke records in college. I have an amateur background with fighting skills.

~Dolph Ziggler

Topics: Amateur Aspect Background Better Broke College Company Every Feel Fighting Funny Get Good Great Like Making Me Other People Really Records Representative Ring Skills Somebody Talker I Feel I Feel Like

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The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

~Dominic Chianese

Topics: Anger Background Both Explosive Father Fire Funny Immigrant Italian Junior Seen Sometimes Son Temperament Tragic Uncle Ways

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