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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know… — Lorrie Moore
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same… — Lorrie Moore
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. — Henry Ford
I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet. He's basically dragged this country down into the worst it's ever been. Like I say about the White… — Jonathan Davis
Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day… — Brandon Boyd
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. — Stanislav Grof
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home… — Thomas Merton
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and… — Eddie Van Halen
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or… — David O. Russell
Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad. — John Lydon
I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the… — Joe Slovo
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more… — Chantal Kreviazuk
But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. — Pat Benatar
This is basically the last resort. I've been painted into a corner, and now I've sort of got to lay it all out in order… — Corey Clark
Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got… — J.J. Cale
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to… — Norman Finkelstein
I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the… — Alan Greenspan
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For… — Tom Robbins
Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things. — Christopher Paolini

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