Basically Quotes
1669 quotes by 1380 authors
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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a…
— Jay Leno
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It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to…
— Eva Longoria
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I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I…
— John Lydon
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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
— John Lydon
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
— Paul Lynde
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though.…
— Ian MacKaye
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I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I…
— Ray Manzarek
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I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the…
— Bruno Mars
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
— Chris Martin
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Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
— James McAvoy
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I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets…
— Russell Means
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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.…
— Henry Mintzberg
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It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
— Helen Mirren
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Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to…
— Joni Mitchell
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My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically…
— Joni Mitchell
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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous…
— Joni Mitchell
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Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university…
— Kevin Mitnick
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
— Ralph Nader
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