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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Wall, Ocean, Inspiration

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• We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, America

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• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Father, Dark

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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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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• You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Hands, Skills

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin

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• Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

  Peter Murphy

  Writing, Crafts, Toothbrushes

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• How could you let him do this? (Shahara) I know you’re not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn’t raise the embryo. You did. It’s what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you’d left him a scared little snot-nose, he’d still be living in your basement. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Teaching, Honor

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