My family is basically Gypsies – for real.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

I don’t read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That’s what I’m intending to do.

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I’m basically a silly guy.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner – we were basically squatters.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.

I’ve always basically done everything that’s been offered to me. I’m one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they’re not major investors in their home country.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that’s somewhat correct.

People’s perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I’m basically just your average dork.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can’t even find people from the same background.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn’t taken a vacation.

My parents are retired, basically.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that’s heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

People have had the idea to do a ’90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn’t come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.

It’s kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you’re basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They’re extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there’s an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I’m basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

I’m talking to you and it’s basically a direct communication, whereas if I’m writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I’m independent, I’m not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I’m an old-fashioned amateur.

Basically, I’m a free spirit. I’m kind of an Everywoman.

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they’re basically overlooked.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

A person may use his fundamental right to communicate whatever he likes, but the people like his point as per their personal choice only and not necessarily that which is always fundamentally right.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

Basically, I’m a shy human being. Very introverted.

Basically, I’m a romantic.

Basically, I’m a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music – hip-hop, drum’n’bass.

It’s my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.

Democrats don’t react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just...

That happens all the time. That’s basically all I hear. The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I...

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I’d want a quokka. They’re basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

I wasn’t that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to...

My roots and Victor’s are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they’re tremendously exciting players.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

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

I’m basically a know-it-all, and I’m writing a book about it. I want it to be called ‘Danson on Water’ and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.