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• I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

  Chris Tucker

  Careers, People, Feelings

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• In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, World, Today

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• I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

  Leon Golub

  Photography, Trying, Connections

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• We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.

  Bill Crow

  Years, Swings, Special

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• It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  War, Character, Men

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• I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

  Willy Ronis

  Mirrors, People, Novelty

  Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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• Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Average, Desire

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• Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

  Julian Barbour

  People, Profound, Ordinary

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• Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Creativity, Littles, Talent

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• We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Grateful, Ordinary, Busy

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• The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which they exert upon the arts, are counted among the most useful and extraordinary inventions.

  Louis Daguerre

  Art, Small Numbers, Discovery

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• The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Government, Decision, Velocity

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• Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  Library, Ordinary, Giants

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 18, 2013

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• Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

  Isaac Barrow

  Art, College, Years

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.57

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• People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

  Glenn Beck

  People, Soul, Magnificent

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit that is changing the shape of Christianity globally. It is truly a new day! The Church is changing. New names! New methods! New worship expressions! The Lord is establishing the foundations of the Church for the new millennium. This foundation is built upon apostles and prophets. Apostles execute and establish God's plan on the earth.

  C. Wagner

  Expression, Names, New Day

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• I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.

  Nick Minchin

  Believe, Optimistic, Years

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• Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

  Nick Minchin

  Religious, Home, People

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is. Every Arab or Muslim that I know is tremendously interested in the United States. Many of them send their children here for education. Many of them come here for vacations. They do business here or get their training here. The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions.

  Edward Said

  Country, Children, Islamic

  Source: progressive.org

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• The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Past, Mystical Experiences, Glimpse

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Gynecology, Careers

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

  Peter O'Toole

  Men, Ordinary, Ordinary Man

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• The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Good Life, Kids, Unique

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• My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech at the Equality Now Award, www.americanrhetoric.com. May 15, 2006.

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• Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

  C. S. Lewis

  Destiny, People, Extraordinary Things

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