#basic

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#bass #became #bit #did #drum

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#basic #business #buy #demand #higher

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#because #i #i love #joys #life

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believed #comes #dad #fights #getting

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#absence #around #basic #beings #between

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#because #block #building #building block #claim

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#basic #because #changed #does #just

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#anything #bands #basically #bobby #folk

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life. ↗

— Scott Glenn

#basic #became #i #life #live