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It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way. — Nell Freudenberger
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat… — Peter De Vries
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals. — Babyface
I usually like whatever I've recently finished best. — John Thomas Sladek
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. — Henry David Thoreau
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. — Marianne Moore
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments. — Natalia Kills
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin
We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us… — Steven Biko
Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process… — Adam Savage
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. — Mark Twain
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up… — William Faulkner
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who… — Baruch Spinoza
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a… — Bertrand Russell
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into… — Lincoln Steffens
Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost… — Robert Kennedy

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