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I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees,… — Robert Reich
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't… — Miroslav Vitous
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me… — Wendy O. Williams
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that… — Isaiah Berlin
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that… — Brian Setzer
I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize Iâ€™m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more… — Gillian Flynn
I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down. — Tyson Gay
But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A… — John Landis
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered. — John Landis
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's… — Don Bluth
With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor… — Noam Chomsky
The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in… — Edward Schillebeeckx
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and… — Karina Longworth
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience… — Jon Bon Jovi
Every deadline was a crisis â€¦ No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood… — Hunter S. Thompson
I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.Â I am quite sincere about some of… — Hunter S. Thompson
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause — Julie Burchill
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist. — Julianne Moore
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine

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