The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go. . . . We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.
Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.
Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.
I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of course, you get help along the way, and cosigns and management and opportunities and things like that but overall, the ball is in your court basically.
Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea. . . If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.
I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so. . . I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but. . . what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.