Extraordinary Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Winning, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: collider.com

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• Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Past, Wings

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me. I did take notes, but just because I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was five. You don't have any sort of outlandish, shocking, extraordinary, horrifying experience without writing it down, because I know and knew that you forget things. No matter how outrageous and amazing and extraordinary and seemingly unforgettable an experience is, it's kind of like a dream. It will erode inevitably, for me.

  Melissa Febos

  Dream, Writing, Erode

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.

  Garth Greenwell

  College, Years, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

  Margaret Chan

  Impact, Events, Viruses

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You can always work harder and we are capable of extraordinary things.

  Sally Fitzgibbons

  Hard Work, Work Harder, Extraordinary Things

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

  Amber Valletta

  Sports, Art, Son

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• Tokyopop's been extraordinary. They approached me to do My Dead Girlfriend - Julie Taylor, one of the senior editors was a huge fan of The O.C. - asked if I'd be interested in creating a book for Tokyopop. My Dead Girlfriend was the book we all agreed upon as being the one that I would do first, and they've just embraced it completely.

  Eric Wight

  Senior, Girlfriend, Book

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

  Chris Weitz

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, Break Through, People

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life". I hope to examine both of them further, doing more justice to Joycean comedy than I did in my "invitation" to the Wake, and trying to understand how the extraordinary stylistic innovations, particularly the proliferation of narrative forms, enable Joyce to "see life foully" from a vast number of sides.

  Philip Kitcher

  Good Life, Philosophical, Numbers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

  Lewis Carroll

  Photography, Art, Writing

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.967, Race Point Pub

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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.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, Views

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

  Jeff Merkley

  Party, Winning, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I look back on my life-and an extraordinary transformation is happening again to me right now - I describe it as my “point of observation” is moving. It is moving because my range of frequencies I am accessing is becoming greater. It’s not because I’m something special because anyone can do it.

  David Icke

  Moving, Special, Becoming

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, www.lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

  Billy Crystal

  Museums, Stories, Care

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.

  Gisela Stuart

  Jobs, Rights, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.

  David Toop

  Years, Knowing, People

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Vegetables, Water

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Raised

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

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