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I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
Sting

Lost, Pretty, Maybe

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
Alan Dershowitz

Truth, Job, Guilty

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
Douglas Horton

Age, Time, Born

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anthony Hope

Truth, Telling, Falsehood

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson

Child, Shame, Punishment

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson

Mother, Husband, Wife

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Samuel Richardson

Men, Wife, Afraid

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson

Women, Cause, Virtue

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson

Happiness, Future, Child

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson

Love, True, Person

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar

Fear, School, Fun

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
Christina Ricci

Change, Actor, Unless

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
Ani DiFranco

Work, Women, Men

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Linus Torvalds

Person, Works, Pragmatic

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
Stephen Sondheim

Enjoy, Song, Point

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Legal, Fight

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
Hugh Hopper

Creative, Rest, Maybe

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
John Malkovich

Life, Real, Might

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
Tony Campolo

Experience, Wisdom, Together

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding

Heart, Truly, Taste

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Paul Harris

Ignorance, Between, Aggressor

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.
Rod Stewart

Women, Through, After

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Emma Goldman

True, Cannot, Social

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.
Dee Dee Myers

Change, Acceptance, Less

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.
Shaun White

Pretty, Guy, Mellow

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
John Mayer

Hope, End, Down

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.
Peter Singer

Time, Best, Children

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
Peter Singer

Good, Knowledge, Around

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.
Rashida Jones

Good, Nice, Awkward

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.
Rashida Jones

Loving, Cast, Dependable

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