You try to take advantage of taking control of the game when you know you may have guys on base and counts aren’t in your favor or whatever. You just try to figure out ways to slow the game down to get back to the pace that you want it to be at, to try to get the momentum back on your side.
Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it’s so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they’re going to vote.
My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: ‘So long as I’m full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?’ The Second Saying: ‘You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.’
No country is ever successful in the long term… without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.
With ‘J’, at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn’t reneging on it; I just didn’t want to do it.
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian’s Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we’re taking steps to make sure that we’re even more – how shall we say it – fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it’s time to run our campaigns.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base – I’m very clumsy – and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
Political parties could learn a lot from pro wrestling, as we have our passionate base, too, but we don’t necessarily gear our show around them.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
That’s the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
We’re losing jobs in our manufacturing base, and those families that are going to be out of work over the holidays, that is a very sad thing. That is more governmental dependency. That is a reduced tax revenue for the state and for the federal government.
‘Targeting’ is polite ads-speak for the data levers that Facebook exposes to advertisers, allowing that predatory lot to dissect the user base – that would be you – like a biology lab frog, drawing and quartering it into various components, and seeing which clicked most on its ads.
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows – the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.
To distract from the president’s disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney’s career as a successful businessman.
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
I think it’s always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want to base it on myself… do something that I can be proud of, and then I’ll be happy.
College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that’s increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.
I’m someone who’d never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there’s a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there’s just a weird anxiety around women.
An influencer with a small but loyal and engaged following can often have a far greater impact than one with a much larger fan base.
Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure – all those things flow from that economic base.
Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.
Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.
It is safest to be moderately base – to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.
Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It’s the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
I started as a model in Mexico – I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
I’m really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.
