Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1473 authors
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the…
— Gail Collins
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Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.
— Steve Coogan
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.'…
— Ann Coulter
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For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the…
— Sloane Crosley
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image…
— Rachel Cusk
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
— Willem Dafoe
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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at…
— Alan Dershowitz
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were…
— Larry David
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
— Demosthenes
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots -…
— Demosthenes
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I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making…
— Alan Dershowitz
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I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed…
— Ani DiFranco
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I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
— Joan Didion
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Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
— Matt Dillon
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I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
— Matt Dillon
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
— Beth Ditto
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
— Frederick Douglass
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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a…
— Peter Drucker
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