David Alan Basche Quotes
I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
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The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
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I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
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Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.
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I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.
