#family background

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line. ↗

— Bob Newhart

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My family background was deeply Christian. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

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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

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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. ↗

— James S. Coleman

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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

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