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Marta was watching the football game with me when she said, "You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group… — Jack Handey
A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be… — Hugh W. Pinnock
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events,… — Ansel Adams
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion… — Paul Nitze
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if… — Edward Abbey
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,… — Edward Abbey
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written. — Edward Abbey
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as… — Zadie Smith
Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. — Arthur C. Clarke
All of the good, weird stories Iâ€™ve written are based on things Iâ€™ve dredged out of my subconscious. Thatâ€™s the real stuff. Everything else is… — Ray Bradbury
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and… — Justin Townes Earle
A lot of people do things out of fear. A lot of people make choices [based on thinking] they wonâ€™t have a career in five… — Katy Perry
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl… — Erich Fromm
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you… — Jimmy Carter
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of… — Saddam Hussein
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Lester Horton
Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves. — Rush Limbaugh
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any… — Leonardo da Vinci
All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've… — Kurt Cobain

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