W. Averell Harriman Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir -
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker -
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
Daniel Gilbert
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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.
Aberjhani -
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde -
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.'
Zadie Smith -
We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
Nandan Nilekani -
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
Barry Ritholtz -
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.
Raf Simons
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
Eden Hazard -
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.
Ian Mcewan -
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
Pankaj Mishra -
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Quintilian -
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
Haley Barbour -
I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
Gary Bettman -
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.
Gabe Newell -
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
Paul Davies -
The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
W. Averell Harriman