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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm… — Eric Hoffer
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off… — Bob Hope
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up. — Khaled Hosseini
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. — E. W. Howe
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. — Charles Ives
'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and… — Stephen Hunter
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys… — Lee Iacocca
For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing… — Hugh Jackman
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by… — William James
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. — Randall Jarrell
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the… — Steve Jobs
I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're… — Elton John
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well. — James Earl Jones
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan,… — Daniel Kahneman
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them. — Michio Kaku
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized. — Charlie Kaufman
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can… — Bil Keane
I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something. — Anna Kendrick
My makeup is usually left over from the night before. — Kesha
I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody… — Billie Jean King
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they… — Barbara Kingsolver
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious… — Barbara Kingsolver
Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. — Greg Kinnear
Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps. — Jeffrey Kluger

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