W. Averell Harriman Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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Money often costs too much.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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We had already come back once, so we knew we could do it again when they took that lead.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
