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I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing. -- Tom Douglas
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. -- Harrison Birtwistle
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing. -- Malaika Arora Khan
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. -- Edward Witten
Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things. -- Jose Ferreira
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up. -- Fred Thompson
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. -- Ruben Hinojosa
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. -- Annie Lennox
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. -- Edwidge Danticat
The cow, basically, eats three basic things in their feed: corn, beets, and barley, and so what I do is I actually challenge my staff with these crazy, wild ideas. Can we take what the cow eats, remove the cow, and then make some hamburgers out of that? -- Homaro Cantu
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. -- Steve Martin
Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail. -- Mikko Hypponen
There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know. -- Loretta Devine
I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next. -- Tom Rath
The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined. -- Stephen Richards
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. -- Hugh Laurie
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. -- Alain de Botton
When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. -- Jo Brand
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power. -- Frank Herbert
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply. -- Brent Spiner
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. -- Helen Fisher
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. -- J. K. Rowling
A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance. -- David Blankenhorn
When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go. -- Sakyong Mipham
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed. -- Warren Buffett
Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again. -- Jim Henson
The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics. -- Roseanne Barr
We need heart. We need a lot of things. But you have to have some basic ability. And sadly, Hillary Clinton doesn't have that. -- Donald Trump
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration. -- Oren Moverman
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. -- Imelda Marcos
One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman. -- Tim McGraw
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence. -- Tobias Wolff
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught. -- Michael Pollan
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. -- K. Eric Drexler
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. -- Claire Danes
I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years. -- Juliana Spahr
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools. -- Andy Rooney
So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset. -- Jennifer Egan
We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW. -- Darren Shan
I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake. -- Satish Kumar
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know. -- Brian Johnson
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts. -- Sandra Bernhard
At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly. -- Peter Mountford
The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak. -Heidi -- Sarah Dessen
The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty. -- Azim Premji
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get. -- Bill Gates
There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on. -- Michael Pollan
I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies can I do. -- Kirk Windstein

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