All Quotes

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
‐‐ Joss Stone

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
‐‐ Donna Karan

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
‐‐ David Blaine

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
‐‐ Jessi Klein

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

Basically I was really modeling for fun, but it wasn't ever something that I wanted to do to begin with.
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.
‐‐ Mr. T

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.
‐‐ Christopher Paolini

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.
‐‐ Daron Malakian

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
‐‐ Jon Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
‐‐ Jon Johansen

Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
‐‐ John Sayles

Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.
‐‐ Estelle

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.
‐‐ Mohnish Pabrai

Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.
‐‐ Don McLean

Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'
‐‐ Lisa Ann Walter

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.
‐‐ Steven Shainberg

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.
‐‐ Christopher Koch

Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
‐‐ Buck Henry

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
‐‐ Keanu Reeves

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
‐‐ Henry Mintzberg

Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends - well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.
‐‐ Charles Simonyi

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.
‐‐ Ewen Bremner

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.
‐‐ Barrett Foa

Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style.
‐‐ Georgia May Jagger

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
‐‐ Saffron Aldridge

Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
‐‐ Mike Ditka

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
‐‐ Felicia Day

Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions.
‐‐ Hugh Hardy

Basically, nice guys can finish last.
‐‐ Lee Meriwether

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
‐‐ Lester Bangs

Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
‐‐ Larry Page

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.
‐‐ Suge Knight

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
‐‐ Tadanobu Asano

Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.
‐‐ Gene Ween

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.
‐‐ Matthew McGrory