Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1473 authors
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Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.
— Sonam Kapoor
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I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about…
— Emraan Hashmi
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I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have…
— Alice Walker
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets…
— Jack W. Szostak
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make…
— Jack W. Szostak
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Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
— Philipp Meyer
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Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family…
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come…
— Sendhil Mullainathan
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Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not…
— Nirmalya Kumar
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Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
— Rose George
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The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are…
— Seth Shostak
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Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.
— Hasnat Khan
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It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they…
— Chris Hadfield
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Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and…
— Jan C. Ting
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
— Craig Brown
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Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted…
— Craig Brown
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Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
— Russell Smith
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Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
— Tom Bodett
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We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned…
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
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