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• Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Meaningful, Exercise, People

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, staging.believermag.com. January 2009.

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• Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

  Mary Schapiro

  Writing, Law, Done

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• The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Men, Numbers, Legendary

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• The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness…but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

  David S. Rose

  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Dedication

  "Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". Interview with Martin Zwilling, www.forbes.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Ordinary

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• One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

  Tony Robbins

  Skills, Age, Want

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• Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

  Christopher Lee

  Instinct, Peter, Stamina

  "Work hard - and play plenty of golf". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

  Chris Bachelder

  Views, Neon, Window

  Chris Bachelder (2002). “Bear v. Shark: The Novel”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Garden, Ordinary

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• As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ordinary, Becoming

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• I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

  Angela Lansbury

  Feelings, Granted, Individual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do. I mean, if you go onto the internet and see some of the fan videos that have been put together, they're just extraordinary; they could be programmes in their own right.

  Peter Capaldi

  Mean, Thinking, Excellence

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

  Peter Capaldi

  Taken, Years, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

  Mark Boal

  Writing, Extraordinary Moments, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• An agent friend of mine who will remain nameless said you can't make a romance about homeless people; nobody wants to see them kiss. And I thought, what a repulsive, repugnant, extraordinary thing to say. I had to think about the fact that the world is probably full of other people who feel like that. The very idea that we spend time trying to humanize humans is extraordinary to me.

  Paul Bettany

  Kissing, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

  Carl Sagan

  Claims, Proof

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• Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ordinary, Stories, Persons

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• It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Creativity, Errors, Phrases

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• If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Immortal, Ifs

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• Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Joy, Privilege

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• Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, People, Ordinary

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• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, School, Winning

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• I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.

  Heather Dorff

  Adventure, Simple, Want

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• In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

  Hermann Goring

  People, Goering, Willpower

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