#often

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#most #often #people #politician #says

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#carries #coming #confidence #contact #conviction

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? ↗

— George Saunders

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If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

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I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone. ↗

— David Sedaris

#been #comes #description #diary #every

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#again #answer #anyway #asked #bear

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#bradley #complete #complete freedom #deadline #forerunner

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. ↗

— Brian Sibley

#chronic #deal #die #great #great deal

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

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