I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way I look and talk, and, of course, my music. It's true I do work with people, but not to accomplish anything bad: just the basics that any person does in this business and with this opportunity to live out my dreams.

Andrew W.K.

Work Music Dreams

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

AB de Villiers

Ways Way Very

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - I'm not a snob like that.

Aerin Lauder

Use Us Terms

'Mr. Majnu' is just my way of saying that I am trying to start off from the basics.

Akhil Akkineni

Art Yin Way

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Alan Greenspan

Education Communication You

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

Alan Smith

Time You Want

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

Alber Elbaz

War Music Men

Even just my basics are so effective against a guy like Max Holloway.

Alexander Volkanovski

Way Us T

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

Alexander Wang

War Cool Art

Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.

Alissa Quart

UN Themselves Them

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

Time Art Yin

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Amy Chua

Time Life Yourself

I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way I look and talk, and, of course, my music. It's true I do work with people, but not to accomplish anything bad: just the basics that any person does in this business and with this opportunity to live out my dreams.

Andrew W.K.

Work Music Dreams

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

Andrew Weil

Good Change You

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

Anne Rice

World Wit Why

Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.

Antonio Guterres

Strength Vent Tin

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

Anupam Roy

Art Years Year

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Barack Obama

Future Where Wed

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Ben Goldacre

Science Great Use

I want to make the IKEA of clothes for fat girls and boys. Cheap, affordable, basic - but ethically made. Basics, you know? Like Spanx - I'm still confused as to why retailers haven't ripped them off yet and done it well. It's because they don't understand the basics behind it. I love Spanx. I'm wearing 'em right now!

Beth Ditto

Love You Why

As a new ball bowler, it's my job to stick to the basics.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Tick T Stick

Everything emanates from the basics, from your base. If you don't have a strong base, I'm sorry, but you are always going to be coming back to it, trying to reattain.

Bill Goldberg

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

Bob Mortimer

As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.

Brad Goreski

We have had the exact same meal for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I can ever remember, and it's so simple. It's just turkey and mashed potatoes and green beans and stuffing. Just the basics, but it's so good.

Brandi Cyrus

My basics for a daytime look are simple: powder, gloss, brows and lashes.

Brandi Rhodes

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Brandon Jennings

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

Cameron Russell

I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.

Camila Alves

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.

Candice Olson

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

Caroline Corr

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

Carrie Brownstein

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

Cat Cora

We should start with the basics: Police officers are unlikely to be held accountable if the prosecutors investigating and potentially prosecuting them feel indebted to them.

Chesa Boudin

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

Chiaki Kuriyama

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

Chloe Sevigny

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

Chris Crutcher

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

Chris Riddell

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

Chris Smalling

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

Clive Owen

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

Craig Newmark

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

Curtis Jones

Learn to cook brown rice with a little salt and butter or olive oil. Learn to boil noodles properly or saute onions right. Once you get those basics down, you'll be all good and feel more confident.

Damaris Phillips

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

Dan Shechtman

You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

Daniel Cormier

As hundreds of millions of Chinese have improved their standard of living, this has put enormous pressure on natural resources, raw materials, and food basics, among others.

Daniel Lubetzky

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

Dave Thomas

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

Debbie Allen

I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

Dhanush

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

Diane English

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Diane Hendricks