They Usually Quotes
125 quotes by 116 authors
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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It…
— Mortimer Adler
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available…
— John le Carre
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They usually show movies on a flight like that.
— Ken Coleman
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When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.
— James Coco
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Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
— Jim Slattery
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When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When…
— Ian Tattersall
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and…
— Dean Koontz
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Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.
— Anne Sweeney
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Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much…
— Dean Ornish
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I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with…
— Eliza Dushku
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests
— Max von Sydow
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I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them Orphan Black…they usually…
— Michelle Forbes
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The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make is trying to do everything themselves. They usually blow up when they try. I did an inventory of every…
— Kevin O'Leary
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Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same…
— Roger Ebert
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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just…
— Jack Canfield
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Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they…
— Hugh Prather
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When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as…
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could…
— William Zinsser
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Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What…
— Larry Page
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