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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet. -- W. P. Kinsella
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. -- Brian Regan
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. -- Ogden Nash
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one. -- Ted Solotaroff
We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies. -- Adi Godrej
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. -- Phil Jackson
The waste basket is the writer's best friend. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. -- Tony Benn
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. -- Elon Musk
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. -- Andrew Carnegie
I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket. -- Ricky Schroder
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. -- Andrew Carnegie
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket. -- Dwyane Wade
I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer. -- Lulu
I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership. -- Kevin Chamberlin
My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative. -- Queen Latifah
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing. -- Tyson Chandler
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men. -- Kim Young-ha
I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already! -- Carmen Miranda
I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!' -- Demetri Martin
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.' -- Bill Cosby
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. -- Alan Bradley
I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone. -- Ann Romney
This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful. -- James Harden
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. -- Vanessa Hudgens
I was an emotional basket case. -- Jennifer Capriati
I can shoot a basket pretty well. -- Erin Heatherton
It takes 10 hands to score a basket -- John Wooden
You must write for the waste basket. -- Johnny Mercer
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. -- Miguel de Cervantes
If you keep missing, get closer to the basket. -- Cynthia Lewis
Do not put all your eggs in one basket. -- Warren Buffett
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes. -- Robert Jordan
A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book. -- Marty Rubin
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. -- Joseph Conrad
To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. -- John Kasich
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case. -- Woody Allen
The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in. -- Allen Iverson
For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work. -- Judith M Bardwick
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet. -- Julius Erving
To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket. -- Charan Singh
Underwater nobody can dance. Let this be a lesson in basket weaving. And love. -- Jarod Kintz
Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket. -- David Haye
There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes. -- George Packer
The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket. -- Gerald M. Loeb
The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket. -- Stephen Curry
Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it. -- Howie Chizek
A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day. -- Clinton Kelly
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. -- Abe Lemons
A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes. -- Albert Einstein
I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous. -- Paloma Faith
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket. -- Jose Bergamin
You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case. -- Kate Bosworth
If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket -- Bobby Robson
There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket. -- Kin Hubbard
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it. -- Charles Babbage
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? -- Katharine Whitehorn
How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don't think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun -- Gena Showalter
Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play. -- Jason Kidd
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. -- Ruskin Bond
I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. -- Jim Butcher
I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. -- Michael Demon Calce
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. -- Donald Knuth
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket -- Lawrence Durrell
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. -- Mary McCarthy
Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too! -- Tori Spelling
Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket. -- Joseph Estrada
Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs. -- Nora Roberts
Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot. -- Joe Calzaghe
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership. -- Earl Monroe
Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket. -- Henny Youngman
I've never met a bread basket that I didn't love. At the same time, it can make me tired. -- Molly Sims
There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. -- Rumi
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket. -- Anthony Liccione
good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true. -- J.R. Ward
I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to. -- Tim Duncan
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. -- Charles Mengel Allen
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. -- Mark Steyn
A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players. -- Stephen Pagliuca
I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills. -- Cecily Strong
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family. -- Sister Parish
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide. -- Bradley Chicho
Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies. -- John Zimmerman
If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket. -- Manu Ginobili
You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket. -- Lish McBride
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. -- Ansel Adams
Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do. -- Jason Kidd
I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland. -- Shane Filan
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. -- Samuel Beckett
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical. -- Joseph Conrad
Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated -- Franz Kafka
I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party. -- Clinton Kelly
The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio. -- Jeffrey Gundlach
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket. -- Miguel de Cervantes
What's that?""The laundry basket?""No, next to it.""I don't see anything next to it.""It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small. -- John Green
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. -- Mary Oliver
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever. -- John Baldessari
To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart. -- John Kasich
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. -- Joseph Barbera
It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good. -- Tristan Thompson
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it. -- Hillary Clinton
And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots -- Bobby Knight
A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development. -- Mo Ibrahim
I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed... as long as he's willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens. -- Teresa Medeiros
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy. -- Robert Harris
He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries. -- Dave Eggers
First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass. -- Yao Ming
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask. -- Dwight L. Moody
You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate. -- Laura Bell Bundy
The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load. -- Stephen Hawking

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