#usual

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#best #exist #hear #lot #lousy

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#conscious #ought #poet #unconscious #usually

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ↗

— Eminem

#almost #bars #beat #comes #eight

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. ↗

— Brian Eno

#bowie #collaboration #create #different #environments

Usually my ideas are small. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#small #usually

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#both #female #having #male #means

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. ↗

— Colin Firth

#another #associate #i #loser #one time

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too. ↗

— Ben Folds

#i #like #music #other #people

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point. ↗

— Ben Folds

#because #find #get #i #into