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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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• 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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• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

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• Make your lives extraordinary.

  Tom Schulman

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

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Three, Looks

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

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• Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Uganda, Rights

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. May 31, 2004.

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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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• 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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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

  Billy Joel

  Mean, Singers, Opinion

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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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• Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

  Julie Walters

  Novelists, Able, Austen

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

  Mary Archer

  Business, Reading, Balance

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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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• 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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• Reality is always extraordinary.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Reality

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

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• As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

  George Whitefield

  Long, Miracle, Tongue

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.227, CCEL

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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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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  Fidel Castro

  Jesus, Ideas, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

  Ajay Naidu

  Loneliness, Europe, Sky

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• The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Positive, Risk, Sometimes

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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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