Baskets Quotes - Page 2

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Friendship, Writing, Waste

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• I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.

  Ricky Schroder

  Thinking, Eggs, Saved

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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• If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

  Charles Mengel Allen

  Technology, Race, Progress

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• Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Play, Keys

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• Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Business, Talking

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• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

  Warren Buffett

  Easter, Eggs, Investment Success

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.13, Carolina Academic Press

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• I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Eggs, Dump, Knows

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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• I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Forever, Want, Burma

  BCUK Interview, burmacampaign.org.uk. June 17, 2002.

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• If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

  Tony Benn

  Years, Library, Paper

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• I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Real, Mean, Blow

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. Ocotber 15, 2003.

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• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

  Sam Donaldson

  College, Thinking, People

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• Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Taken, Clothes

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• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

  Joseph Conrad

  Terrorism, Terrorist, Policemen

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Signatures, Matter, Should

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.51, McClelland & Stewart

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• I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

  Carmen Miranda

  Anger, Forever, Wedding Day

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• Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wisdom, Eggs, Energy

  Address to students at Curry Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa., 23 June 1885. Printed in Carnegie's book, The Empire of Business (1902).

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• We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

  Henry Cisneros

  People, Watches, Youth

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• I was an emotional basket case.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Emotional, Cases

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

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Nice

  "'Comedy Central Presents' ('Demetri Martin')". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

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• I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Interesting, Tree, Pumps

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Cute, Real, Kissing

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• Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

  Earl Monroe

  Leadership, Needs, Way

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