Basements Quotes - Page 10

• I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

  Xavier Dolan

  Home, Writing, Aunt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

  Howard Sasportas

  House, Denial, Way

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• In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.

  LIZ

  Night, Thinking, Gold

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• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  Lindi Ortega

  Growing Up, Dad, Player

  "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.

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• High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.

  Steve Aoki

  School, Sleep, College

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• A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

  Doug Larson

  Empty Life, Clean, Garage

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• For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Real, Nuts, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mom, Cutting

  BUST, 2000.

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• I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Past, Parent

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• One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

  Henry Rollins

  World, Noise, Festivals

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• The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.

  Tim Allen

  Kids, Ego, Busy

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I recently attended a pro-drug rally... in my basement.

  David Cross

  Drug

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• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  Eugene Mirman

  Night, Apples, Knowing

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their profits from every square inch of the place means that there just aren't any scruffy little basement clubs left. Those scruffy little basement clubs were the areas lifeblood. Now, it's all penthouse flats and global brands. They destroyed the very thing that drew people there in the first place - it's superficial sleaziness.

  Derek Ridgers

  Mean, Squares, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Opportunity, Return

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

  Francoise Giroud

  Dresses, Planning, Fit

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• When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Differences, Creating

  "Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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• When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set
  out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed
  that would pay the bills.

  Richard Branson

  Pay, Bills, London

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• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Suicide, Blessed, Ocean

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• Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

  Neil Peart

  People, Different, Matter

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• Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

  Drew Curtis

  Exercise, Media, People

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Art, America, Humanity

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