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“Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.”

Culture Fields Habit Activity Speech Habitual

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.”

Humans Body Space Behavior Flying Flight Lacking Human Body Good Science Space Flight

Author:Charles Simonyi

“Basically, my deal is that I choose roles based on three criteria. One is the role, obviously, if it's something that speaks to me. Two is, are they gonna pay me? And three is, who am I gonna work with? And, really, if one of those is there, I'm pretty likely to do it, but it's particularly important to me who I'm going to work with, 'cause that's part of the joy.”

Ifs Two Important Joy Three Speak Causes Deals Pay Roles Going To Work Criteria

Author:Brent Spiner

“Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style.”

Ifs Style Hair Easier Dry Hairdresser

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.”

Life Is Boring Embarrassing So Boring

Author:Hugh Grant

“Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.”

Enough Kids Today School Mother Teach Teacher Patient Really Amazing Very Thankful

Author:Eldar Djangirov

“Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.”

Mother Dies Father Parent Saws Affair Los Angeles Sixty Flew Great Love Messed Up

Author:Saffron Aldridge

“Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.”

Knows Doe Problem Sports Doctors Stress Constant Chemicals

Author:Mike Ditka

“Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.”

Years Looks School College High School My Friends University Senior Senior Year

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.”

People Children Theater Meetings Online Schooling Socialization

Author:Felicia Day

“Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.”

Way Feels Children States Play Fun

Author:Alison Bechdel

“Basically, nice guys can finish last.”

Lasts Guy Nice Nice Guy

Author:Lee Meriwether

“Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.”

Ifs Giving Asks Opinion Give Me

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.”

Firsts Done Wanted Actors Break Doors Products Decided Hardest Hardest Thing Nepotism

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”

World Goal Knowledge Information Organize

Author:Larry Page

“Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.”

People Writing Book Literature Class Britain Leisure

Author:Irvine Welsh

“Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money”

People Want Enough More Money

Author:Suge Knight

“Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.”

People Want Country Japan Flats Other Countries

Author:Tadanobu Asano

“Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.”

Years Changed Radio

Author:Casey Kasem

“Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.”

Littles Book Found Feet College Radio Locals Spots Little Things Guinness

Author:Matthew McGrory

“Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.”

World Mind Two Ideas War Real Particular Notion Practicals Fats War Of The Worlds Abstract Cosmic Soviet Tanks World War Two

Author:Philip K. Dick

Source: Valis

“Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.”

Way Humans Human Beings Defined

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”

Streets Ass Madhouses

Author:Charles Bukowski

Source: Hollywood

“Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.”

Jobs Actors Pay Attention Scripts Pay Attention

Author:Joe Morton

“Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.”

Doe Different Body Happens Numbers Type Amount Damage Machinery Comprehensive Ageing Small Numbers Cellular

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.”

Needs Should Made Said Certain Attitude Accepting Clear Taught Buddhist Followers Investigation Sheer Skeptical Self Made

Author:Dalai Lama

“Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.”

Needs Years Reason Body Animal Killing Vegan Exploitation

Author:Daniel Johns

“Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.”

Important Decision Important Decisions Pricing

Author:Warren Buffett

“Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Process Worry Election Starting Thinking Process

Author:Ray Nagin

“Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.”

Ideas Helping Use Wanted Company Vision Fashion Information Standards Originals Publish Relics

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.”

Way Character Roles Type Research

Author:Theo Rossi

“Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.”

World Capable Giants Something Better

Author:Claire LaZebnik

“Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.”

World Way Want Kind Two Country Dream Bigs America Opportunity Interest Powerful Land Pursue Around The World Bullying Stereotype Dreams Come True Goliath Land Of Opportunity

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.”

Two Walks Path Impossible Trust In God Two Paths

Author:Charles Stanley

“Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.”

Knows Two Term Quality Two Things Flavor General Public

Author:Bobby Flay

“Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.”

Men World Two States Reason Born Answers Awareness Capacity Overcoming Harmony Unity Oneness Involvement Egocentric Separateness Capacity To Love Regression

Author:Erich Fromm

Source: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

“Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.”

Universe Energy Worry Eternal Energy Of The Universe

Author:Alan Watts

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)”

Littles Important Film Three Sound Space Impossible Influence Aspect Thirds Track Versions Genre Echoes Vocal Garage Sample Soundtracks Reggae Methodology Dance Music Jamaicans Sampling Dubstep

Author:Kode9

“Basically, there's a good friend of mine who works at EMI Publishing, a publishing company. He had asked me - he was like, you know, do you know this girl, Amy Winehouse? She's in New York for a day. She's kind of meeting people to maybe work with on her second album.”

People Knows Kind Girl Company New York Mines Like You Meetings Albums Do You Know Publishing Good Friend Amy This Girl

Author:Mark Ronson

“Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.”

People Trying Enough Actors Sex Natural Missing Gun Movie

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.”

Should Humans Persons Differences Human Beings Approach Recognizing

Author:Dalai Lama

“Basically, this guy was a saint, so we drink.”

Guy Drink Saint This Guy

Author:Michelle Michaels

“Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.”

“Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.”

Believe Wells I Believe Too Much Eating I Believe In Variety Ice Cream Eating Well

Author:Joan Collins

“Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.”

Lucky

Author:John Goodman

“Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.”

Position Ethics Innovation Excellence Titles Competence Effectiveness Organisation

Author:Robin Sharma

“Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.”

Looks Mean Doe Hands Generations Havens Internet Productions Wheels Anarchist Fetters

Author:Mark Pesce

“Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.”

Writing Economy Willing Debt Steady Drains Shrinking Purchasing Purchasing Power Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“Basically, we [me and Evan Goldberg] started thinking about making a movie that was kind of a weed movie and action movie and had a real kind of friendship story to it, then that would be our favorite movie [Pineapple Express] ever.”

Thinking Kind Real Stories Would Be Action Weed Action Movie Pineapples

Author:Seth Rogen

“Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.”

Years Kind Shows Reality Four Television Trump Eight Stuck Four Years Television Shows Reality Television

Author:Van Jones

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