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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
Kevin Kelly

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
Conrad Black

Loyalty, Anyone, Company

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.
Conrad Black

Time, Children, News

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
Dirk Benedict

Dumb, Speaking, Allowed

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
Paul Wolfowitz

American, Public, Security

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
Paul Wolfowitz

Between, Result, Stronger

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
Walter Jon Williams

Writing, Made, Working

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.
Frank Miller

Good, America, Rather

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.
Minnie Driver

Life, Live, Quiet

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman

Poverty, American, Simplicity

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
Daniel Kahneman

Opinions, Judgments

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
Tom Hooper

Patriotism, Film, English

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.
Liev Schreiber

Smart, Short, Everyone

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
Laurel Clark

Someone, Through, Trying

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.
Keira Knightley

Nice, Real, Playing

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.
Andrew Mason

Nature, Technology, Both

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?
Andrea Arnold

Trying, Thought, Wrong

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Diogenes of Sinope

Wise, Person, Themselves

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
Walter Isaacson

Romantic, Book, Made

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
William Shenstone

Good, Mankind, Ill

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
William Shenstone

Great, Alone, Through

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
Anthony Horowitz

Nice, Children, Book

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.
Ben Bernanke

Leave, Congress, Second

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier

Nothing, Before, Mad

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
George Soros

Happen, Different, Idea

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

Life, Friends, Around

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
Britt Ekland

Positive, Person, Pretty

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.
Tom Brokaw

Down, Less, Happens

I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
Geraldine Brooks

Time, School, Pretty

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.
Jon Landau

Work, Again, American

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