Usual Quotes
623 quotes by 528 authors
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry…
— Russell Baker
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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening…
— John Boehner
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know…
— Anthony Bourdain
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of…
— Dave Brubeck
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived…
— James Buchan
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Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like…
— Nick Cave
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
— Georges Clemenceau
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
— Peter Kropotkin
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -…
— Terence McKenna
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and…
— Geronimo
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Just charge me with the usual.
— Bob Probert
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In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and…
— Bob Probert
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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
— Mark Twain
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The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!
— Winston Churchill
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