Rarely Quotes
1495 Rarely quotes by 1159 unique authors
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Great movies are rarely perfect movies.
— Pauline Kael
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What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading…
— Kelly Gallagher
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I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It…
— Lee Unkrich
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Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very…
— David Alan Harvey
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The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their…
— Dan Geer
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It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or…
— Marc Andreessen
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Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people…
— George Carlin
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It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is…
— Edward Zwick
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
— Nick Hornby
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Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.
— Paulo Coelho
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We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq,…
— Michael K. Simpson
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There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
— Bliss Carman
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I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
— Bob Parsons
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People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.
— Andy Stanley
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Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years…
— James Lovelock
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Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good…
— Vincent de Paul
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
— James A. Garfield
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a…
— Oliver Burkeman
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In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When…
— Paul Stamets
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Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, "Son, I love you,"…
— James E. Faust
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Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
— Bernie Brillstein
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Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.
— Kim Campbell
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Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or…
— Isaac Asimov
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I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process…
— Laura Marling
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