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Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris
Literature usually begets literature. — Susan Sontag
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy… — Luke Perry
Usually we are saying only part of the truth. — Erno Rubik
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno
Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had. — Charles Frankel
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. — Roman Abramovich
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble. — Scott Caan
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one… — Jacob Bronowski
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham
It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time… — Murray Kempton
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. — Jay McInerney
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this… — Eddie Van Halen
But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow… — Roy Lichtenstein
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to… — Ilka Chase
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces… — Jonathan Raban
Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it… — Jonathan Raban
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means… — Northrop Frye
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean
But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly. — Sean Maher
The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be… — Tobey Maguire
Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time… — Todd McFarlane
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold… — Alexei Navalny

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