Ordinary People Quotes - Page 7

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Lord

  People, Ordinary, Looks

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• Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Hero, People, Ordinary

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• There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, People, Ordinary

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, People, Ordinary

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press

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• The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Opportunity, Government, People

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, People, Ordinary

  "The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.

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• It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Ralph Fletcher (2010). “How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Voice, People, Community

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• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

  Gavin Bryars

  People, Touching, Feelings

  KlassikNet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

  Studs Terkel

  Air, People, Ordinary

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

  Walt Disney

  Teamwork, Pride, Organization

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• I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

  Willie Pastrano

  Beautiful, Eye, Rocks

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• Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  People, Miracle, Devil

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• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Mind, Age

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• There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.

  Rick Warren

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

  Phil Gramm

  America, People, Ordinary

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• The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.

  Nigel Lawson

  Home, Successful, People

  "The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical". Book by Nigel Lawson, 1992.

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• Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

  Steve Jobs

  Airplane, Order, People

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• Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

  Robert G. Allen

  Successful, Simple, People

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

  Charles Atlas

  Artist, Differences, People

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• There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

  Norman Spinrad

  People, Ordinary, Certain

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• I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Islands, People, Ordinary

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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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• 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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