I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed.
Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.
In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anyone who can’t compete only with himself defeats the very first and the basic purpose of doing anything really excellent.
