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• I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Sports, Stars, Want

  "I walk every day with my dogs and force myself to run a bit but I hate it". www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society

  Hal Holbrook

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Average, Ordinary

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• I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Kicking, Cinema, Actors

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• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  Francesca Annis

  People, Age, Looks

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• The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

  Julius Lester

  Normal, Accepting, Young

  Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• God is not about using the mighty but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who prepared to lay their lives down to him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid down lovers of Jesus who will carry his glory with transparency and not take it for themselves

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, People, Lovers

  Heidi Baker, Rolland Baker (2014). “Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love”, p.62, Chosen Books

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• A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it’s an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog.
  ‘What does electricity taste like?’ I ask.
  ‘Like a planet around a star,’ Bina48 replies.
  Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I’m not sure which

  Jon Ronson

  Dog, Stars, Profound

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• A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

  Niall Williams

  Healing, Hands, Sound

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• It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

  Paul Gilding

  Motivation, Inspiration, Loss

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• When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Numbers, Discipline

  Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press

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• The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

  Danny Boyle

  India, Extraordinary Things

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• Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

  Muriel Barbery

  Clouds, Dust, Essence

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• The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

  Constantine Manos

  Real, Expression, People

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• How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Uncles, Fall

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• The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

  Boris Pasternak

  Artist, Discovery, Overwhelmed

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1976). “My sister, life and other poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Writing, Fantasy, Workers

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• All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Ordinary, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.616, Discovery House

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• Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

  Jane Goodall

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

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• I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

  Nancy Horan

  Love, Stupid, Men

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Holiday, Order

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• I don't want to sound mystical but sometimes when you take a picture - when the sets are in place - then something takes over and leads you. It's this sense of extraordinary luck and chance. The shoot is blessed and charmed, and you make pictures that you couldn't in your wildest dreams have imagined. That is the magic of photography.

  Tim Walker

  Photography, Dream, Blessed

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• Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

  Arthur Cravan

  Genius, Body, Manifestation

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• The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’

  Etienne Decroux

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Grateful, Humble, Sleep

  "A Permeable Life: Poetry and Essays". Book by Carrie Newcomer, onbeing.org. March 17, 2014.

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