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• You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we’re all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you’re doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

  Danny Huston

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• There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

  Michel Houellebecq

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• With communication technology in general, there’s a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world’s entire population using one communication technology, that’s a big deal. It’s beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it’s a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

  Ben Horowitz

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• How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

  Ben Horowitz

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• In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

  John Hockenberry

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• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  Faith Hill

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• A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

  Woody Hayes

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• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

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• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  Samuel Johnson

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• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  Fernando Pessoa

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• Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

  Rick Ross

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• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  Iris Murdoch

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• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone’s going to tell you how to do it and why. I’ve always said to other mothers and women when they’ve asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

  Brooke Burke

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• I don’t surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

  Brian Harold May

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• Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

  Ian Allison

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• But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

  Friedrich List

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• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

  Fred Allen Boyd Jr.

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