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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics. -- Lara Giddings
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football. -- Alan Smith
Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying. -- Phil Keoghan
We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living. -- Sander Levin
TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows. -- Mona Singh
As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics. -- Tracy Chevalier
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday. -- Edward Albert
It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. -- John Major
We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition. -- Joe Miller
The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics. -- Shane Black
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak. -- Andrea Tantaros
Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes it back to basics. -- Kerry Ellis
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again. -- Barack Obama
If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. -- Steve Wynn
As educational standards decline and pop culture disseminates the inarticulate ravings and unintelligible patois of surfers, jocks, and valley girls, we are turning into a nation of functioning illiterates [...].English itself will steadily decay unless we get back to basics and start to respect our language again. -- Steven Pinker
What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics. -- Curtis Jones
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. -- Shawn Johnson
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. -- Clive Owen
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit. -- Rick Astley
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. -- Dave Thomas
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. -- Joan Blades
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story. -- Chris Riddell
If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people. -- Nellie McKay
I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place. -- Jim Cantalupo
A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the '90s. There's no one doing that anymore. -- Leon Bridges
Wal-Mart, we've been known for many years - back to the days of when Sam Walton started the company - we've been known for basics. The basic need of families and people across America. Wal-Mart was known as the place for basics. -- Mike Duke
I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals. -- Josh Cooke
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it? -- Edwina Currie
Everything in life goes back to the basics. -- Kron Gracie
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love. -- Waylon Jennings
Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk -- Gary Crowley
If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics. -- Buck Brannaman
I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics. -- Brian McKnight
We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote. -- Dolores Huerta
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the Luddites. Im happiest when Im behind the kit. -- Rick Astley
Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion. -- Lyn St. James
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back. -- Dave Thomas

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