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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taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.
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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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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
