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If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
Not only will innovative technology create a more connected human race; it will normalize access to our most basic needs.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
I'm not an amazing engineer; I'm just super basic. I'm pretty cavalier about it - I stick the mic wherever it sounds good.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
Sweetcorn, mushy peas, beans, lentils, are all basic staples that can be thrown together into a variety of surprising meals.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
I would try and barter a cake for some help with coding. I'm not the best coder. I have some basic HTML but that's about it.
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
Since I'm always on the go, I think it's necessary to have basic strappy sandals that go seamlessly with everything you wear.
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look.
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.
I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.
In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
When 'Party of Five' ended I believed we had run our course. I believed the basic ideal and premise of the show had been fulfilled.
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.
Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
I had to go to Asda, it's the best supermarket if you're poor as they have a good basic range, Sainsbury's is for rich, posh people.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.