Basements Quotes - Page 8

• I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Reunion, Involved, Ifs

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

  Sarah Carter

  Thinking, Dreamer, World

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.

  Ray Romano

  Thinking, People, Parent

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

  Mona Simpson

  Writing, White, Ties

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• I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.

  Robin Olds

  Moving, Thinking, Blue

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• If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Father, Believe, House

  Source: collider.com

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• I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

  Kid Ink

  Thinking, Sitting, Hitting

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• During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Girl, War

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• I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements.

  Robert Pattinson

  Demon, Mets, Comment

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

  Joe Walsh

  Parent, Legends, Parenthood

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• Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Mentor, Ping Pong

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• When I learned to build on my faith, the fear pretty much went away. I'm in a dark basement in a home that's demonically infested - that's not my idea of a fun evening, but again it boils down to your faith. That's your protection. That's the only protection we have.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Fun, Home, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

  Geoff Rickly

  Trying, Band, Nostalgia

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Giving, Everyday, Roles

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• When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

  Klaus Nomi

  Mother, Kings, Rocks

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• If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

  Brit Marling

  Hiding, Periods, Immune System

  Source: collider.com

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• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Home, Swimming, Squares

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• In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Race, Oil, Energy

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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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• 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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• It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

  Ben Brantley

  Mean, Play, Church

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• Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

  Tanya Davis

  Lonely, Healing, Heart

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• Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

  CM Punk

  Texas, Wwe, Purpose

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• The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.

  Page Hamilton

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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