Basements Quotes - Page 6

• We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

  Tippi Hedren

  Lions, Missouri

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• My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mom, Football, Games

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• Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

  Jon Landau

  Decision, Forever, Tape

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• Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out that changes that dynamic, if the switch flips, the elevator goes straight to the basement. There's very little in terms of arms reaching out to help him.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Arms, Littles, Voters

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

  Bill Moyers

  Bark, Supposed To Be, Knows

  Source: progressive.org

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• There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Illustration, Wings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

  Carrie Underwood

  Beach, New York, Husband

  "Sneak Preview of Glamour's". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Art, Years, Numbers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

  Markus Zusak

  Grief, Hands, Wish

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.229, Random House

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• I know our congressmen hasn't done it, has anybody put a server in their basement? Oh boy, Hillary Clinton's only - Hillary Clinton's only experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harm's way.

  Donald Trump

  Boys, Engineering, Law

  Source: time.com

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• Cyber attacks from foreign governments, especially China, Russia, North Korea along with non-state terrorist actors and organized criminal groups constitute one of our most critical national security concerns. They're leaning everything about us and we don't have - wanna have any servers in the basements, by the way folks.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Government, Cyber Attacks

  Source: time.com

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• Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.

  Bill Mollison

  Home, Organization, Mud

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

  Sharon Cameron

  Records, Stuff, Courthouses

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.

  Victoria Wilson

  Gun, House, Velvet

  Source: www.classicmoviehub.com

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• He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

  Paul Smith

  Mother, Father, Workshops

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dad, Real, Hands

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

  Richard Rorty

  Civilization, Intellectual, Foundation

  "Philosophical Convictions". The Nation, June 14, 2004.

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• My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

  Douglas Preston

  Jobs, Hard Work, Home

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• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Friday, Brother, Night

  "'Orphan Black' Star Tatiana Maslany Headed to 'Parks and Recreation'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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• The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

  Lupe Velez

  Men, House, Looks

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Funny, Dream, Clever

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• Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul.
  Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed.
  Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her
  life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!

  Karen O

  Artist, Self, Giving

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• It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

  Alan Guth

  Safe, Universe

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• SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

  Patrick Califia

  Art, Clothes, Sms

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