Famous Quotes & Sayings

Win Butler

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

Ving Rhames

I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.

Beth Brooke

Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.

Becki Newton

When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?

Tom Jenkinson

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Ted Sarandos

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

Tony La Russa

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Tony La Russa

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

Tyrese Gibson

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

Faith Popcorn

We do a lot of brainstorming with our talent base of 6,500 experts globally,

Craig Biggio

(Wednesday) was definitely a roller-coaster day. It was a close game, and then they tied it up with Bobby's big home run. Then they come back and scored and put us down. Willy not giving up and running all the way through the base gave us a chance. That was a nice game right there.

Shinzo Abe

We would like to deal with this firmly based upon our basic recognition that both...the nuclear non-proliferation issue and stable crude oil supplies are important.

We want to consider our partners and the needs of the world economy, ... We do not decide our currency rate based on the trade deficit of any single country.

We were a little sluggish. We had different ones (hitters) come through for us. We had some hits with people on base and that is what you want to do. Big hits when we needed them.

We were able to run the bases well and we did some other things right as well.

We were able to put Greg out on (Pasco) in the fourth quarter and I think that certainly had something to do with it. Oz (Hopewell) had him for the first three or four minutes of the fourth, then when it was crunch time and we were going to win or lose based upon what they did on their offensive end, we wanted to make sure Greg was on him.

We were able to give them priority based on a natural disaster preference,

Today we have not yet reached the peak of this epidemic. Even based on conservative estimates, the toll of this epidemic will be extremely high.

Ivan Pavlov

Thus, the purposeful relationship of phenomena is based on the specificity of the stimuli, that correspond to similarly specific reactions.

Chris Claremont

Thus far, though, based on the art, this book rocks. Great-looking cast, diabolical villains, evocative sense of time and place, and the odd, occasional giggle.

We didn't check the other districts. But based on these 18 cases, Yan is not a common consumer turning to the court for help when a store cheated him.

We didn't represent the game of baseball the way it should be played. It was pretty ugly to say the least.

We don?t have the industrial base we used to have. What do we want to be in the future? I think the community has a lot of potential, and this location of the visitors bureau will just be the front door.

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Harry Lloyd

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

Harry Lloyd

I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.

Henry Selick

Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.

Henning Mankell

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

Andrew Johnson

We are always looking for ways to expand the natural part of our business. But our core business is going to be based on the core cable business.

We are about where we expected. We feel we should get at least nine or 10 of those guys through the semifinals based on their past performances.