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My father was a tremendous extrovert, always managing to be the center of attention and the life of the party. Mom was just the opposite - quiet, suffering, and neurotic as Hell. Quite a combination, those two. Dad was a terrific ham and Mom was very introverted, and basically sad and self-conscious.

My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like 'OK.' I came out here and knew it was the right place.

My hips are the best they've been since whenever this happened. I've only been working out for about three weeks. It's a matter of getting back into shape. I never take time off in the summer. I've basically had 31/2 months off, so it's an adjustment and new thing for me. It's going to take me a couple of weeks to get back.

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Like Coach Tice told me, I can't get out there and try to jump back in and try to run and get where I was, ... I've got to step up the ladder. So basically I've just got to be smart right now instead of trying to be who I am.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Some crew chief has to be the best. In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. I compare it to chess. We all basically have the same pieces and play on the same board, but some guys are just better than others. I can't give you an answer why and I bet Alan can't either. It's just the way it is. He's very expensive, but worth every penny.

Olympic Dam is a highly-prized asset which will take off. The real viable alternative to the high oil price is basically nuclear.

Obviously you don't want to play the game from behind, but we basically had the knife to our throat.

Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

Of course there will always be some expansion of security and contraction of security as information is developed, but basically security has been the same since the 11th.

Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do. But if we lose this series, we're basically out of it. To win this series shows we're still in it and shows we've still got some fight left in us.

Morgan does that basically every game. We put her on their point guard and we tell her to pressure without fouling, play good defense. When she does that, it puts the ball in someone else's hands that's possibly not used to bringing it up and it kind of throws their momentum off. She does a great job. Without her, we wouldn't be the team we are.

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Monies from the referendum only allow us to maintain our existing programs. We aren't adding anything else. We've had to make cuts and we're down to basically our base programs. Any future cuts will cut into our quality education.

None of those proposals are going to solve the problem, which is basically the city needs to fund the pension system, and it needs a big infusion of money to jump start it.

None of us want it to expire. It is only the president who is basically playing chicken with us.

Of course before we race it's freezing, but as soon as you get on the line, you've got to get it out of your head. We knew that we'd basically go in anything besides thunder and lightning, but I didn't think it would be this bad today.

My concern basically to start with was the ambulances coming down off the interstate and getting to the hospital in the quickest time.

People who are grabbing that brown sugar because they think it's healthier are basically deluding themselves.

Negative sentiment has basically led to across-the-board declines, very few stocks have escaped unscathed.

Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much relief from Asia for quite a while. I think we'll get tired of hearing about Asia before the year is over, but it's really earnings that's key. It's growth that's really the issue.

Obviously it's great to be on pole again, ... The way things go wrong in these sessions - they're so short - that you have to be absolutely flat out from the first lap. That's basically what our plan was and it seemed to work out. I didn't qualify at the last race at Watkins Glen - my teammate Bob Stallings did - but that's two poles in two qualifying sessions for me, and that 's something we're pretty happy about.

Obviously, the Guidant board favors the certainty associated with J&J's offer. They've basically gotten the FTC to sign off with J&J. They just need shareholder approval.

Now, that's basically the same statement that was reported in the newspapers.

Now that we have a base statistic in front of us, we have to go to work and do the hard work of organizing. This is basically a 10-year cycle that we're on.

Right now, I'm basically back to basics and working my way back up. Just got to be patient. It's going to take time.

Right now, it's really hard to say who is a leader in this digital entertainment space basically because ... it's like everybody is in the last place.

My lawyer is going to court, and that's basically where it is now. My take, and I hope the people in power agree, is that we should stay.

My job is basically to coach the people who are there. Everyone in baseball knows, though, that Vazquez is a high-quality pitcher.

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

I got in today and it was pretty sore, but I just played through it. It's basically what I have to do in the game.

I'd like to see it become a program like Aspen's where they have a Midget Major A team as well as a high school team. It is basically the same team, but they just play different schedules.

I didn't want to come back to Colorado last summer and basically audition for other teams and blow out of town as soon as I was a free agent. I wanted to come back, pitch well and have those guys want me to be back.

I don't feel like I made the mistakes to lose the match. I think he played well to beat me. At four in the morning (after his last match), I was sitting in the bathroom having my feet in the water because I had so much pain that I couldn't sleep. I had a really bad blister on my feet. Then all day I was basically taking care of my feet and went for a swimming pool, had a massage, was worrying if I will be even able to run on the court. In the end, I was really happy the way I played. I mean, I had the pain, but I overcame it and I tried to fight to win the match.

I didn't let it interfere with the way I did my job, ... I felt it (wore) a little bit on my thinking on the field. Basically that's why I made the decision.

If this happens, then the whole purpose of the A-tax . is basically moot. The system was designed to increase the tax base by driving tourism.

If they follow these guidelines the risk is basically nonexistent.

If we didn't win, I think our chances in the tourney would be slim. It was a must-win, and that's basically what we put on our foreheads and on our hearts.

If we didn't win, I think our chances (of getting) in the tourney would be slim. It was a must-win, and that's basically what we put in our heads and in our hearts.

If we had to lose and if one person basically was the reason -- you never want to lose -- but you didn't mind it being Kirby Puckett. When he made the catch and when he hit the home run you could tell the whole thing had turned.

If we have a decent June 2006, we won't lose near that much money. It may be $130,000, $140,000, ... We do a complete summer season report, basically May through September. That'll be available in early October. It's a more encompassing picture of the summer season.

If we had lost tonight, it's basically like Pin the Tail on the Donkey, when there's one kid left and you know he's going to hit the spot. You don't want to get to that point. It's always nice to beat a great ballclub.

If they are still under U.S. control, it would have to be on the basis of some agreement between the United States and the country concerned -- and that agreement would basically establish the bounds of their rights.

I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play.

'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

Look, there are a lot of people who care about him and work with him, ... He has to be careful how he responds to the media. Basically you have to be careful. ... He wants to do well. He gets a little bewildered.

'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

We're not desperate, we just want to get our head count up to our control level. I'd like to hire about nine or 10, and I think that would move us into this winter and spring. We're basically hiring and training year- round.

We made a decision to go with straight entertainment programming in late night, ... That's just basically a scheduling opportunity that we felt over the long term had more potential.

The place he was staying at was a derelict house and there was a bunch of younger guys staying in it. I basically just packed up his stuff said to him 'come on, you can come and stay with Kirsty and I until we get you back on track',

When we started back in '96, we basically wanted to play the music that we liked. Everything was very naive. We never expected to reach this kind of level, or even to be one day professional or living off the music. It's so new and so fresh, we're happy about the little things.

When we started out (as freshmen), we were like the youngest Division I team in the country. So basically we just had to buy into what our coach was telling us. He always tried to keep us focused. We always believed he knew what he was talking about. We stuck with it, and it paid off for us.

When we started out doing this, basically what we were doing was throwing money at the problem. In most cases, people had absolutely no idea how to spend the money.

When you buy a company sometimes there are some short-term cuts, but basically we make money when companies grow fast...so our interests are linked with the number of people working for us.

When you consider alternatives such as Linux, arguments in favor of Windows are not as appealing. This worm was basically an exercise to show off the flaws in Microsoft security and Microsoft didn't fare too well.

We're concentrating (our search) basically on the Island area because we have information that he has been seen earlier today there.

We're looking at staying as long as it takes this time, ... We're going down there basically to make a wage with our equipment.

Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we have to come back here to win three games to go to the NCAA Tournament.

Let's say that you decide to electronically file your tax return, but want a paper check issued, you're still cutting your time basically in half by electronically filing your tax return.

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check.

Milwaukee was a fascinating place. When I was a kid, it was basically a blue-collar, factory kind of town, lots of bars, lots of fights.

Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of 6.4 percent. Consolidated volume was basically flat and net sales were up 0.3 percent.

Six-and-three is OK. We're still in contention for the Pac-10 championship, so I guess we're content, but we're only halfway through it. Our confidence has grown winning these two games, but every week you just basically start from scratch again.

My main focus at the start of the season was basically to have the best senior year possible for Southwest Missouri State. I really didn't take into consideration the draft that much. I just wanted to help my team win basketball games. Once our season run was over, that's when I really started looking into where I might be going, or if I would go anywhere, so that's when I really started focusing on the next step.

My main goal was to try to start off quick and just hit fairways and greens and basically do what I've been doing,

My injury happened during the match, ... I went to hit an overhand and it felt like I basically hyper-extended my back. I couldn't really move very well after that, and it felt very stiff.

Mead works very slowly. Sometimes a grape ferment will basically be done in a week or so, whereas the mead you see out there has been bubbling for months, and it will keep bubbling for months.

Me and him were talking a lot about us coming here and him having an opportunity here. And basically what he was telling me was he wants to get the love for basketball back. That means a lot to players who don't get a chance to play.

Me and Mike, we've been friends for a long time. He and Antoine (Walker) basically took me under their wing when I first got in the league. Basically he said he's been watching me and I've really been playing well. He's just trying to keep me positive about the situation.

Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.

Menendez has a fund raiser, and basically everyone donates to him. It's the way of business in Hudson County.

Mentally, I think is the key, staying mentally prepared in a number of ways. One, just visualizing that you're out there. When you're watching the game, seeing the pitch that you would throw and just trying to put yourself in the situation because it has been a while since I've thrown. That's basically what I've been doing.

Miramax under them had basically become a major studio. We're still in the Miramax business, but it will be reconstructed to look more like what they started.

Missing basically all of last year, I'm just trying to get back into the game and get some timing.

Mike has placed a lot of confidence in me. It's basically in my hands what I want to do with it.

Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

She always does her part as far as scoring is concerned. She's basically had to carry the team. She's a good shooter and our most consistent player.

She basically deals with the nuts and bolts of the business. She orders documentation and (works on) the Web site with the help of a Web designer.

She basically drank coffee and walked around between deliveries. She didn't think she was going to have three.

She basically had no fear. She is still such a daredevil at everything.

She basically lit it up. She was very effective.

She basically touches every items that comes in.

She basically won the game for them; she stood on her head.

She basically won the game for them. She was the biggest factor why they won today.

Most of the things we learned were internally. Who will you count on, also players basically that we had to move around whether it be for not being consistent enough in their performance or the ability to get along with everyone.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

She really stepped up and was basically unstoppable.

She pitched well. She's a dominant pitcher. Basically we couldn't make any solid contact.

She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.

(She has a) severe blow to the head. She has a broken jaw, broken pelvis. They basically left my wife for dead. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love. I can't see no love right now.

She has basically led us into and through No Child Left Behind, with a glowing record, I might add.

We had big hopes of winning the national championship, ... and those were basically shot. Our dreams were gone.

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

Whenever you talk about something 10 years from now, it's always basically going to be guesswork, something approaching science fiction and fantasy more than reality.

Scott was punk rock and basically we were just worried about his health. We got kind of midway through the drums and he started having really bad headaches and he knew, ... he knew he was sicker than he let us know - which I'm glad he did because if we had known how sick he was we would have sent him home.

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Shareholders basically have got more debt, more fees, more equities.

Many of us feel basically that this was a waste of time and effort in this particular venue.