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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'
Demetri Martin

Nice, Someone, Hell

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

Wise, Thoughts, Eggs

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Best, Friend, Writer

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie

Rich, Put, Become

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Put, Eggs, Dump

I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
Ann Romney

Through, Again, Few

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn

Public, Library, Fifty

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
Vanessa Hudgens

Someone, Real, Made

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Forever, Burma, Case

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!
Tori Spelling

Advice, Everyone, Moses

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
Julius Erving

Eyes, Keep, Both

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
Eric Alterman

Political, Decision, Negative

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
Jenny Eclair

Dad, School, After

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver

Life, Poetry, Put

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Joseph Barbera

Hope, Him, Point

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
Jerry Bruckheimer

Real, Mean, Problem

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemons

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger

Dreams, Great, Human

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
Ernie Banks

Business, Today, Put

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
Sam Donaldson

College, Step, Television

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
Kate Bosworth

Someone, Confidence, Insecure

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
Donald Knuth

Important, Needs, Paper

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.
Guy Finley

Peace, Nature, Spiritual

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
Roy Lichtenstein

Matter, Rather, Tree

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.
Jason Kidd

Play, Big, Making

I was an emotional basket case.
Jennifer Capriati

Emotional, Case

This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.
James Harden

Successful, Game, Single

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Carmen Miranda

Time, Anger, Wedding

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
Charles Mengel Allen

Technology, Help, Human

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