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I don't think we've been influenced massively by our success and by our travels. The lyrics [singer Chris Martin] writes are more basic than that, more basic, emotional ideas rather than life experiences. There's probably a few lines in there which reflect what's happened in the last year or so, but it's hard to say
View quotes by Guy Berryman
Sometimes the most basic elements are the most fascinating, the most absorbing, and also the most complicated.
View quotes by Virginia Graham
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
View quotes by Brooks Atkinson
Almost any watch will do a basic timing job. All you really need is one that freezes time at the end of your run.
View quotes by Joe Henderson
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
View quotes by Willa Cather
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
View quotes by Scott Alexander
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
View quotes by Joseph Addison
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
View quotes by Elizabeth Goudge
Boxing is an incredible sport and one of the oldest and most basic, and all the more prestigious for that.
View quotes by Joe Frazier
With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.
View quotes by Joe Gold
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
View quotes by Charles Fourier
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
View quotes by Margaret Chase Smith
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
View quotes by Tennessee Williams
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage.
View quotes by Pablo Casals
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life
View quotes by Jacques Chirac
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers (Basic Verities)
View quotes by Charles Peguy
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues
View quotes by Robert Hutchins
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
View quotes by Jim Rohn
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
View quotes by Quentin Crisp
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