Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
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Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.
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In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
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Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.
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Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi in The Book of Five Rings
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
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