#backgrounds

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be. ↗

— Martin Mull

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I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. ↗

— Sally Ride

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In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds. ↗

— Darrell Issa

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America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds. ↗

— Kaya Scodelario

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You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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