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I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.
Tom Douglas /
Basic Things
Sweetest
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle / Composer
Basic Things
Music Is
Writing
Archetypal
Basic
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All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Basic Things
Teach
Worst
All Religions
Considered
Religions
Stand Up
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
Malaika Arora Khan / Film Actress
Basic Things
Belly
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People have to know that when momentum for a national movement has to be built, basic things have to be talked about first.
Jaggi Vasudev / Philanthropist
Basic Things
Momentum
People Know Things
Talked
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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Edward Witten / Physicist
Beauty
Basic Things
Different
Giving
Shapes
Vibrate
Basic
Forms
Different Shapes
Gives
String
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Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage and how not to hurry up with work.
Shriya Pilgaonkar /
Basic Things
Correctly
Hurry
Interpret
Picked
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I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.
Katherine Waterston / Film Actress
Basic Things
Daily Life
Goofy
Life Love Daily
Drawn
Everything Else
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There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.
Michael Pollan / Author
Basic Things
Certain
Knows
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Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.
Marina And The Diamonds / Singer-Songwriter
Basic Things
Indulge
Love Is
Motivated
Succeed
Love Myself Love Is
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And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.
Robert Barry / Artist
Basic Things
Certain
Ideas
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If I haven't rested, or I haven't slept or had food or done the normal basic things as a human being, how could I stand in front of a camera and do stuff, you know what I mean? It's mad!
Big Narstie /
Basic Things
Mad
Normal
Basic
Camera
Front
Human Being
Rested
Slept
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Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.
Jose Ferreira /
Basic Things
Fixing
Investors
Venture
Capitalists
Minority
Positions
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But what's wrong with asking players to use their imagination, their game intelligence, as well as oomph and spirit? I don't just want them to do basic things. I'm asking them to do complicated things.
Alan Pardew / Manager
Basic Things
Complicated Things
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Friends
Basic Things
Certain
Democracy
Interest
Lines
Regard
Sand
Willing
Basic
Draw
Vital
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In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
Arabia
Basic Things
Guardian
Permission
Saudi Arabia
Outnumber
Recognized
Saudi
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We don't have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help people be educated on how technology works: what's there, where is it headed, what some of the challenges and opportunities are.
Suzan Delbene /
Basic Things
Educated
Headed
Help People
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The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.
M. J. Rose /
Basic Things
Biggest Mistake
Bucks
Cost
Marketers
Mega
Mistake
Publishers
Strategy
Successful
Writer
Assume
Books
Basic
Biggest
Freelance
Tend
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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
Edwidge Danticat / Author
Basic Things
Feelings
Ideology
Levels
Play
Pure
Strange
Taken
Basic
Duped
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The cow, basically, eats three basic things in their feed: corn, beets, and barley, and so what I do is I actually challenge my staff with these crazy, wild ideas. Can we take what the cow eats, remove the cow, and then make some hamburgers out of that?
Homaro Cantu / Inventor
Barley
Basic Things
Corn
Hamburgers
Ideas
Remove
Staff
Basic
Wild
Challenge
Feed
Cow
Eats
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I was really looking forward to the release of 'Villain.' I put in a lot of hard work, and I am glad people are noticing basic things - like how I synced perfectly with the Malayalam dialogues or that I came across as a Malayalam girl - makes me feel wonderful.
Raashi Khanna /
Basic Things
Glad
Looking Forward
Noticing
Release
Villain
Work Hard Work I Am
Perfectly
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We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox / Singer-Songwriter
Basic Things
Empowerment
Equal
Equal Rights
Fashion
Feminism
Mean
Powerful
Protection
Badge
Basic
Item
Label
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In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.
Jess Phillips /
Basic Things
Ill
Fairly
Believe Better People
Believe Children Better
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At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
Ruben Hinojosa / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Affordable
Basic Things
Children
Core
Good Job
Healthcare
Military
National Security
Prescription Drugs
Quality Education
Retirement
Basic
Equipped
Prescription
Provide
Strongly
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There's times where you get the loud, crazy comments from me, and there's times where I say basic things, and stay quiet because I don't want to cause any drama. Sometimes I'm in the mood where I'm just going to tell it how it is, and have fun. And whoever doesn't like it, OK.
Chris Weidman / Mixed Martial Artist
Basic Things
Loud
Mood
Comments
Me Fun Crazy
Have Fun
Whoever
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Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
Steve Martin / Actor
Band
Basic Things
Different Experiences
Real
Rhythm
Life Alone Experience
Basic
Performer
Required
Throughout
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I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.
Tom Rath / Author
Diet
Basic Things
Colleagues
Exercise
Lifestyle
Loved Ones
Good Diet Exercise
Bouncing
Jump
Regimen
So Many People
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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
Jenny Han / Writer
Basic Things
Unstable
Life Your Day
Basic
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There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.
Loretta Devine / Actress
Actors
Basic Things
Etiquette
Needs
Wrong Person
Basic
Fired
Supposed
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I am in favor of saying, 'Okay, let's get teams of educators and experts in certain disciplines to say, 'What are the basic things that we think are an essential part of an early education for people?'' Put them together and create, as well as possible, a set of goals and tools to learn those things.
Lawrence M. Krauss / Physicist
Basic Things
Experts
Tools
Disciplines
Educators
Essential Part
Favor
Teams
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Whether it is a film, television serial or web series, there are three basic things that I consider when I give a nod for a project. Firstly, is the story bringing any effect on my mind. Secondly, the integrity of the makers, and how it will impact the society once the story goes on the public platform.
Amit Sadh /
Basic Things
Impact
Makers
Series
Television
Basic
Bringing
Consider
Effect
Project
Firstly
Nod
Platform
Secondly
Web
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One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese.
Anjelah Johnson /
Thank You
Basic Things
Impress
Turns
Welcome
Accent
Certain Things
Count
Nail
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Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It's about being respectful to elders. It's about praying five times a day. It's about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It's about inheritance, and it's about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life.
Linda Sarsour /
Basic Things
Elders
Etiquette
Guidelines
Inheritance
Praying
Respectful
Life Family Me
Get Married
Muslims
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Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.
Mikko Hypponen / Columnist
Computers
Basic Things
Continuing
Electricity
Internet
Basic
Creates
Fail
Obviously
Problems
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