#basis

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#basis #bass #bass player #could #fact

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#civil #custom #force #individual #international

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. ↗

— Theresa May

#basis #british #come #family #genuine

What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#balanced #basis #believe #both #both sides

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#brands #buy #educated #hopeful #hopefully

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#basis #competitive #competitiveness #done #economic

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. ↗

— Merton Miller

#advising #also #basis #cambridge #company