Ordinary Person Quotes

• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

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• I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Blessed, Opportunity, Today

  "Debating The First Latina Supreme Court Nominee". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• I am an ordinary person.

  Frances McDormand

  Ordinary, Persons

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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• There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Children, Believe

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Ordinary, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Land, House

  George Orwell (2004). “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Ordinary, Alternatives

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• One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

  Blaise Pascal

  Talking, Judging, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Gratitude, Kings, Ignorance

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• Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ordinary, Stories, Persons

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• If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

  Peter Deunov

  Extraordinary Person, Pursue, Persons

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.

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• I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ordinary, Committed, Persons

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• For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

  Jody Williams

  Extraordinary Person, Differences, Titles

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• A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

  Christopher Reeve

  Hero, Ordinary, Way

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• Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Sound, Ordinary

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• The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

  Henry Blackaby

  Ordinary, Truth Is, Dedicated

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King (2008). “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God”, p.47, B&H Publishing Group

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• A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

  Annie Lennox

  Thinking, Mad, Ordinary

  "I would have been perfect as a man". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2010.

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• The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Order, Soul

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

  Joan Armatrading

  People, Achievement, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

  Alexander Theroux

  Artist, Men, Differences

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?"

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

  Veronique Vienne

  Feelings, Gardening, Enlightenment

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• The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

  Terence McKenna

  Reading, Important, Ordinary

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• I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Ordinary, Watches

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