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• Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

  Michael Josephson

  Inspirational, Character, People

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• Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

  Mike Murdock

  Inspirational, People, Pay

  Mike Murdock (2012). “The Making Of A Champion”, p.56, Wisdom International Inc

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• God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

  Norman Mailer

  Ambition, Fate, Destiny

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

  Angela Lansbury

  Directors, Bucks, Shows

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• And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

  Robert Rauschenberg

  New York, Thinking, Quality

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• The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Business, Ambition

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• Reality is always extraordinary.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Reality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

  Phillip Adams

  People, Risk, Extraordinary Things

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• Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

  Ron Chernow

  Mind, Topics, Century

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• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Guilt, Sin, Feels

  "Midnight Oil". Book by V. S. Pritchett, Vol. 2, Ch. 10, 1971.

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• I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Want, Guilty

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• It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

  Peter Shaffer

  Strong, Tire, Extraordinary Things

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• It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

  Mary Archer

  Business, Reading, Balance

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• My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Electric, Audience

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• Make your lives extraordinary.

  Tom Schulman

  "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Discovery, Ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.66

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• To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

  Ronald Blythe

  Past, Age, Ordinary

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Hero, Eye, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Dec 20, 2010

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• I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Support, Ensemble, I've Learned

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• This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

  Brian Perkins

  Sound, Ordinary, Facts

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• It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

  Daniel Yergin

  Ethanol, Right Now

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• I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

  Bernie Mac

  Jobs, Guy, Ordinary

  "Obituary: Bernie Mac", www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Imagination, Sun, Creatures

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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• It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

  Gertrude Stein

  Family, Forget The Past, Acquaintance

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.590, Northwestern University Press

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