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The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college. — Peter Cameron

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general. — Naomi Campbell

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu

In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else. — Stana Katic

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. — Julius Caesar

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life. — George Jean Nathan

I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself. — Charlyne Yi

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

That's the thing- with that summer and hard times in general, you've gotta take the salty with the sweet. It's always a balance. — Mamrie Hart

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. — Lionel Hampton

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is - as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility - dukes and such. — Mark Twain

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. — Percy Williams Bridgman

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. — Joseph Campbell

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. — Gaspar Noe

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies. — Linda Sunshine

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families. — Ja Rule

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is — Xenophon

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. — Gregory Crewdson

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. — Brian Lamb

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices. — Italo Calvino

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers. — Dave Goldberg

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind. — Joseph Conrad

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs. — Charles E. Wilson

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. — Charles Horton Cooley

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity. — William Ramsay

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general. — Rachael Yamagata

THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it. — Neil Gaiman

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet. — Mike Leigh

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish. — Brian May

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence. — H.G.Wells

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. — Noam Chomsky

With life in general, desires rule our thoughts in most aspects. — Auliq Ice

I think in general the ends do not justify the means. — Howard Dean

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him? — Mahatma Gandhi

It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole. — Leonardo Sciascia

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards. — Carrot Top

Without an organized space life in general feels unorganized and overwhelming which results in a complete lack of productivity. — Jessie Fuller

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. — James Ellroy

I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically. — Darius Khondji

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general. — Ed Droste

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life. — Rumer Willis

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can. — Avicii

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. — Edward Hopper

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. — Josh Billings

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general. — Akeem Ayers

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie! — James L. Brooks

Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method. — Dallas Willard

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. — Samuel Johnson

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ... — Murasaki Shikibu

I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general. — Charlie Tahan

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. — John Lawler

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. — Errol Morris

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. — Alexander Herzen

We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general. — Sean Hannity

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh. — Dan Fogler

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. — James Lind

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. — Joan Chen

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? — Napoleon Bonaparte

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. — H. G. Bissinger

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. — Bernard Law Montgomery

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. — Ezra Pound

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. — Voltaire

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. — Adam Weishaupt

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society. — Sonny Rollins

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway. — John Scalzi

In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best. — Marvin Minsky

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. — Galen Rowell

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island. — Katie Nolan

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general. — Jenji Kohan

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work. — Clark Duke

The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. — Henry James

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band. — Justin Vernon

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. — Callie Khouri

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general. — Roy Harper

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. — Giacomo Casanova

Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general. — Siobhan Maclean

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one. — Alexander McCall Smith

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings. — Victoria Legrand

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy. — Miles Teller