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I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Russell Means

Age, Free, Talk

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
Jackie Chan

Everything, Training, Run

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.
Christina Ricci

Married, Tax, Break

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
Ani DiFranco

Music, Work, Age

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate Blanchett

Education, Work, Done

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.
Kristen Stewart

Strong, Girl, Whole

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
Bryan Cranston

Great, Comedy, Situation

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
Jay Leno

Great, War, Evil

Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
Mike Ditka

Stress, Through, Problem

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.
Peter Singer

Religion, Reason, Support

When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.
David Walliams

Fun, Everything, Put

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
Joni Mitchell

Used, Africa, White

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.
Joni Mitchell

Love, Problems, Wrong

I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone's wearing it. I'm basically styling America.
Jessica Simpson

Love, Someone, Two

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.
Jenny McCarthy

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.
Sergei Bubka

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
Dennis Prager

Bad, Humanity, Place

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
Bruce Springsteen

Pretty, Getting, Few

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
Tony Blair

Faith, Work, Respect

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
Whitney Houston

Alone, Mother, Singer

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
Thomas Friedman

Down, Through, Same

Basically, I live to do gigs.
Amy Winehouse

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.
Giada De Laurentiis

Love, Simple, Together

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
Martha Beck

Another, Looks, Ten

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
Eddie Van Halen

Good, Teacher, Blessed

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.
Jo Brand

Two, Getting, Lives

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.
Chris Brown

Dream, Far, Artist

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.
Emeril Lagasse

Education, Experience, Job

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
Christopher Walken

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.
Mike Ditka

Important, Try, Older

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