Average Quotes - Page 24

• There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

  Kevin Bacon

  Men, Talking, People

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• I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Guy, Rooms

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• There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

  Chester Bennington

  Wish, Encounters, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Christopher Bond

  Dream, Generations, Impossible

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• Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

  Linwood Barclay

  Smart, Car, President

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• The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Moving, Order, Literature

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• I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

  Mario Balotelli

  Believe, Intelligent, Persons

  "Balotelli: I'm a misunderstood genius". Interview, www.espnfc.com.

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• If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

  James C. Collins

  Pages, Can Do, Finished

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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  Sean Covey

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Practice, Play

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• Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

  Jim Cooper

  Doctors, Ideas, Two

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• If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

  Robert Cailliau

  Abuse, Citizens, Fundamentals

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• About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Two, Degrees

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• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  Warwick Davis

  Dream, Opposites, Play

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2001.

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• In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

  Jeff Goodell

  Three, Temperature, Arctic

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• I'm an average citizen and always have been.

  Sandy Adams

  Citizens, Has Beens

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• I'm just the average guy, I fooled around a little on the side.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Guy, Infidelity, Littles

  Song: The Other Woman, Album: The Other Woman

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• There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Paper, Form

  Francis Crick (1995). “Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

  Alexis Carrel

  Science, Technology, Numbers

  Man the Unknown Chapter 2, 4 (p. 49)

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• Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

  Nelly

  Savages, Politics

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• I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

  David Cross

  People, Sides, Complaints

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 02, 2009.

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• What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand there's inflation and growth - it can go higher and lower - and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your total portfolio that gets you balanced.

  Ray Dalio

  Growth, Trying, Different

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

  Paul Feig

  Thousand, Happens, Percent

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• I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

  Clara Hughes

  Winning, Training, Trying

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• Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

  Eric Holder

  Race, Issues, Political

  Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009

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