People Usually Quotes
49 quotes by 46 authors
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
— Francis Bacon
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People usually are the happiest at home.
— William Shakespeare
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those…
— Martin Seligman
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People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to…
— Malcolm X
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The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as…
— Richard Lewontin
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People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved -…
— Theodora Goss
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Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they…
— Don Bluth
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I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
— Rory Bremner
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
— Erma Bombeck
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big…
— Anne Enright
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You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have…
— Duncan Jones
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Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and…
— Temple Grandin
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A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor…
— David
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Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I…
— Joan Juliet Buck
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Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose…
— Sean Paul
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The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and…
— David Ayer
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