Ordinary People Quotes - Page 5

• We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Educational, Writing, Winning

  Jonathan Kozol (1993). “On Being a Teacher”, Oneworld Publications Limited

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• We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Beauty, Art, Fire

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• Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, People, Insanity

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

  Viola Davis

  People, Ordinary, Helping

  FaceBook post by Viola Davis from Jul 24, 2014

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• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

  Jean Anouilh

  Lying, Hero, Race

  Jean Anouilh (1951). “Legend of lovers”

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• It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

  Alan Brennert

  Islands, People, Ordinary

  Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.852, St. Martin's Press

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• Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, People, Political

  "Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

  Anne Scott

  People, Leader, Ordinary

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• With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Powerful, Fighting

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's Flight 93 memorial dedication speech, www.newsbusters.org. September 10, 2011.

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• Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

  Ian Kiernan

  Leadership, Country, Thinking

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• The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  People, Democracy, Ordinary

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• If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being

  Joanna Macy

  Love, Web Of Life, People

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• What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Ambition, Reality

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• The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

  Twiggy

  People, Ordinary, Sixty

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• I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

  Timothy Leary

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

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• I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

  Alberto Sordi

  Real, Simple, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  Ian Mckellen

  America, People, Ordinary

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• Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

  CL

  Thinking, People, Ordinary

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• Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Ordinary, Tools

  "Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So" by Catherine Ventura, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2012.

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• It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life and instead represents the views of the ordinary people who are our readers and who don't have a voice in today's political landscape and are too often ignored by today's ruling elite.

  Paul Dacre

  Voice, Views, People

  "Why is the left obsessed by the Daily Mail?". www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2013.

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• Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Powerful, War, Greatness

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• Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

  Ray Johnson

  People, Ordinary, Information

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