#usually

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#agent #crude #director #each #hollywood

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#activists #against #chance #credible #funny

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#down #engine #failure #go #goes

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change #changing #climate #geological #happen

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. ↗

— John Malkovich

#confidence #crush #i #i think #immediately

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#believe #decisions #harmful #i #i am

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#directed #fifteen #includes #individual #junior

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

What is best and most necessary usually happens. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#happens #most #necessary #usually