Basements Quotes - Page 2

• White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Thinking, White

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• Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Elevators, Operators

  "Rodney Dangerfield's Famous One-Liners" by the Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2004.

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• I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

  Jessica Hahn

  Girl, New York, Window

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• After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Civilization, Parent

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Independent, House

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• As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

  Julian Assange

  Writing, Media, Organization

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Interview". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbclearn.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Home

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• I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Bargains, Movie Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

  Paul Westerberg

  Fun, Mean, Enjoy

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• The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

  Markus Zusak

  People, Chance, Showers

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• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Coffee, Kids, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

  Alice Cooper

  Family, Mother, Shields

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces, 1981

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• So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

  Ann Coulter

  Mother, Wall, Accomplishment

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• If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

  Terry H. Anderson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

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• The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Crazy, Aunt

  Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

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• One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.

  Mike Rosen

  Sex, Couple, Home

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• Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Real, Monsters

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Humble, Law

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Home, Fate, Games

  2001 The Corrections.

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• The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Names, Tea

  Morning Joe, March 31, 2010.

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• Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?

  Jennifer Crusie

  Kitchen, Midnight, Body

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2008). “Agnes and the Hitman”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

  Thom Filicia

  Beautiful, Looks, Pieces

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.

  Rachel Caine

  Claire, Boxes, Said

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.41, Allison & Busby

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• Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Men, Self

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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