It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
Ellen Burstyn

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
Christina Aguilera

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Ken Follett

I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis.
Mike Johanns

It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
Macaulay Culkin

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.
Norman Lindsay

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
Nadia Comaneci

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
Ibrahim Babangida

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
James Monroe

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.
John W. Snow

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
Hideki Tojo

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Brian Eno

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
David Attenborough

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
George Henry Lewes

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Jean Rostand

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
Tim Scott