Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
— Chico Hamilton
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Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package.…
— Jaime Hernandez
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China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its…
— Hu Jintao
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In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR,…
— Robert Huber
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Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
— Ruben Hinojosa
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We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these…
— James Inhofe
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which…
— A. J. Jacobs
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I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I…
— Alan Jackson
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When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact…
— Andrea Jung
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In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept,…
— Eugene Jarvis
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to…
— Naveen Jain
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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
— Etgar Keret
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One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear.…
— Rajneesh
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As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough…
— Brande Roderick
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Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole…
— Alex Kapranos
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My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead…
— Lawrence Klein
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England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to…
— Dan Smoot
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Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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