Extraordinary Quotes - Page 21

• It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

  Marco Pierre White

  Moving, Obsession, Conquer

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Self, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.

  Tony Blair

  Skills, Support Systems, Government

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

  Nina Turner

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Ordinary World, Extraordinary Person

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities.

  Ronald Reagan

  Unique, Opportunity, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People generally have the idea that Donald Trump is a great communicator. And the press has acknowledged this guy has extraordinary communication skills. I think what doesn't come through is his humility. I know some people might laugh at that comment, and he likes promoting his brand. But at times he can be extremely humble. He likes people and wants to help people.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Communication, Humble, Humility

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as though you were merely processing credit card applications. [Instead,] the information you're processing is that an incoming missile is 15 kilometers away, now 10 kilometers away, now 5 kilometers. You have to separate yourself psychologically from the fact that your mortal existence may well end. That is the ancient reality of war.

  George Friedman

  War, Reality, Cards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no taste whatsoever for even the slightest loss or bloodshed or ickiness. That's a fascinating combination.

  Jaron Lanier

  Loss, Feelings, Desire

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Military, Creativity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one thing that binds our country together. We don't have a king obviously, but we have this president, and the fact that almost all of them have lived in the same place, and so much history took place in those rooms. You can't help but feel awe-inspired by being there.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Beautiful, Country, Kings

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• I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in such little time from a marvelous supporting role in "Bridesmaids" to being the lead in several films that are coming out this year. She's extraordinary.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Years, Roles

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I feel the same way when I meet somebody in Los Angeles, because I'm from Winnipeg. I'm just a very ordinary girl that something extraordinary happened to. So, I'll go to an event and, say, stand next to Charlize Theron and be like, "Oh my God! This is incredible!" And then you get to talk to her and you find out she's a real person. She's a mom and very interesting. I'm constantly thunderstruck by people that I admire.

  Nia Vardalos

  Girl, Mom, Real

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

  Babette Mangolte

  Goodbye, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such.

  Naomi Watts

  Tattoo, People, Forgiving

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• Now we're in a very different economy. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s American management started to do the right things. There was extraordinary investment in technology. The dominant questions now are less how to do it better, how to manage better, how to make the economy better, than how to have fuller and more meaningful lives. Because the irony is, now that we've come through this great transition, even though our organizations and our people are extraordinarily productive, many feel that the nonwork side of life is very thin.

  Robert Reich

  Meaningful, Technology, People

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I, from the luxury of my laptop computer, can summon extraordinary bargains on everything I want, and I can also move my savings anywhere. This ability to choose more broadly and to switch more easily is the central fact of modern economic life.

  Robert Reich

  Moving, Computer, Modern

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We can't have extraordinary dynamism, innovation, and change in the economy and expect to have predictability and stability in our personal lives. It's not as if there are these big, giant institutions existing between us and the economy. In fact, these institutions have become tissue-thin. There is no mediation anymore. We are the economy; the economy is us.

  Robert Reich

  Innovation, Economy, Stability

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they don't have access to the economic dynamism of cities. So if there are ways to tell stories that help people in rural areas see their kind of mutual need for care, that to me is the kind of thing that I want HuffPost to try and do.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Taken, People, Suffering

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Give yourself permission to do something extraordinary and amazing on planet earth. Acknowledge that you have and can do whatever it takes. You would not be given true and inspiring dream without the potential to fulfill it. Listen to the wisdom of your heart and then use the sound reason of your mind to strategize and plan out the life you truly desire and deserve.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Dream, Heart, Giving

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experiencing that day-to-day satisfaction of being with these incredible, extraordinary creatures. Every single one of them is the most incredible, extraordinary creature that you're ever going to want to see. I think the joy of having that deep relationship - that's the core of what being a parent is.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever. This is a visual medium in which the eye and the mind work together to bear witness to story, to lives.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Art, Book, Eye

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Office, Fbi, Term

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make a significant break with the past. And Hillary Clinton is a person - whether you like it or not - of extraordinary experience. I don't know if we ever had a presidential candidate with that level of political experience. There's no learning curve for her. And that, in some periods, would be a huge plus. In the end, I think it will be a significant plus for her now.

  Cass Sunstein

  Strong, War, Past

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I feel like the life I live is extraordinary in a lot of ways but that it also comes with a lot of responsibilities. I've had to grow up pretty fast and deal with situations most 22-year-olds aren't really put into. There are days and weeks and months when you just don't stop.

  Kendall Jenner

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Week

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