#ground

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#ground #hollywood #mentality #middle #middle ground

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#ads #background #buy #check #checks

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#car #checks #drive #guns #how

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#comparing #descriptions #earth #geologists #geology

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! ↗

— Gene Cernan

#anchors #background #could #five #four

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. ↗

— David Chalmers

#helps #i #i can #language #probably

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready. ↗

— Jason Statham

#away #background #big #brushed #endured

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#cultural #dominates #ground #ground zero #groups

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#friends #going #going home #grounded #home