It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.
I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.
I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.
When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
