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And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.
Marco Rubio

Government, Problem, Said

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
Billy Corgan

Done, Generation, Members

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
Billy Corgan

Death, Cultural, Suburbs

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'
Jennifer Lawrence

Hate, Job, Someone

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.
Phil Anselmo

Real, Touch, Bring

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Bodhidharma

Two, Path, Reason

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Jack Nicholson

Live, Heart, Deep

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.
Justin Bieber

Perfect, Artist, Grow

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Liam Neeson

Girl, Down, Through

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Game, Career, Since

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
Rocco DiSpirito

Business, Job, Control

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.
Larry David

Bad, Person, Happen

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.
Rick Perry

Time, Simple, Mean

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves

Together, Training, Put

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
Henry Louis Gates

Best, Might, Sound

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
Joni Mitchell

Time, Art, Enough

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Denial, Sin

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.
Emma Thompson

Hate, Together, Enjoy

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
Bon Scott

Rock, Sex, Three

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
Jonathan Kozol

True, America, Strange

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
Francesca Annis

Love, Work, Hate

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?
Mindy Kaling

Good, Writing, Sometimes

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.
John Podhoretz

Bad, Same, Cheating

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
Blake Shelton

Love, Freedom, Down

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
David Duchovny

Money, Food, Spend

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Work, Same

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting

Music, Hate, Rock

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
Kelly Clarkson

Change, Fear, Person

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Ann Coulter

Today, Political, Trying

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
Sandra Bullock

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