Average Quotes - Page 21

• The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.

  Ted Nicholas

  People, Doe, World

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• The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.

  Homer

  Stars, Thinking, Nerd

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• There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Sight, Agreement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

  Gracie Allen

  Men, Thinking, Brain

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• The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Doe, Different

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• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Bridges, Pillars, Worst

  "Modern lover". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Moving, Pride

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• When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hands, People, Incentives

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

  Urban Meyer

  Special, Littles, Easy

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• You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Guy, Investing

  "When I Met the Legends of Investing - Part 1". Interview with Vishal Khandelwal, www.safalniveshak.com. October 31, 2012.

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, People

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• I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Strong, Fall, Past

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• When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Boys, White, Lucky

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.114, Kodansha America

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• I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

  Marilyn

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Art, Civilization, Alive

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

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• I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

  Misbah-ul-Haq

  Player, Strikes, Rate

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• It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Country, Ordinary, Female

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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• If the proposed ordinance is adopted it will hurt small women- and minority-owned businesses the most, the majority of which are already struggling mightily to do business in this city of higher-than average costs of doing business.

  Randy Hamilton

  Hurt, Struggle, Cities

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• There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  New York, Cities, Hands

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.164, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

  John Updike

  Book, Kissing, Hands

  John Updike (2008). “Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism”, p.68, Random House

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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Writing, Trying

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• You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

  Jeremy Grantham

  Running, Bmw, Healthy

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• Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

  Alan Guth

  Space, Realizing, Complicated

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• It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

  Larry Wall

  Attendance, Easy, Conferences

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• Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "Ryan Reynolds Is So Happy He Doesn't Have a Son, Hated Filming With Cats" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 05, 2015.

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