I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.
No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.
There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.
We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.
It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people.
There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.