All Quotes

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha

I barely leave my cage, my house.
‐‐ Kim Coates

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I barely speak English.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
‐‐ Larry Hagman

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.
‐‐ Chelsea Peretti

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.
‐‐ Tom Waits

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
‐‐ Hank Azaria

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
‐‐ Gilda Radner

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
‐‐ Gilda Radner

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.
‐‐ Tyler Farr

I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.
‐‐ Emerson Fittipaldi

I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.
‐‐ Bill Buford

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.
‐‐ John Delaney

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.
‐‐ Todd Park

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
‐‐ Dianne Feinstein

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
‐‐ Todd Barry

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.
‐‐ Ann B. Davis

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
‐‐ Matt Groening

I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.
‐‐ Norman Reedus

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
‐‐ Takeru Kobayashi

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
‐‐ Michael J. Saylor

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
‐‐ Hal Ashby

I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.
‐‐ Robin Weigert

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.
‐‐ Denis Leary

I basically learned hip-hop from *NSYNC. And then while I was touring in theater shows, and I couldn't take classes in hip-hop but I wanted to, I just watched Justin Timberlake concerts.
‐‐ Vincent Rodriguez III

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.
‐‐ Krista Allen

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.
‐‐ Jason Silva

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.
‐‐ Amanda Hearst

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.
‐‐ Mehcad Brooks

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.
‐‐ Robert Lopez

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
‐‐ Hans-Georg Gadamer