Extraordinary Quotes
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Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don`t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Andrew Adams
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Don`t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden
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Guns are neat little things, aren`t they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
John W. Hinckley, Jr.
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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey
Keywords: are :: circumstances :: deal :: extraordinary :: forced :: just :: men :: no :: ordinary :: that :: there :: to :: withSubject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey
Keywords: are :: circumstances :: deal :: extraordinary :: forced :: just :: men :: no :: ordinary :: that :: there :: to :: withSubject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I`m drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I`m not saying I don`t love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it...
Sophie Okonedo
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[on John Huston] John Huston, the director, is a genius and like a lot of geniuses he can be erratic. But his perception, charm, and warmth are so extraordinary that you want to give the best of you. He has an incredible curiosity about life. While cuttin...
Stacy Keach
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I`m really proud of being English, because I learned my job in England, in English films with English actors. But I never dared dream of such a success... it`s more than a dream. I realize it`s extraordinary for a British actress. I feel good, but guilty ...
Kate Winslet
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[interview in Playboy, 12/04] I`m not a star, and I don`t want to be a star. Stars fall. I`m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
Bernie Mac
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[on Jerry Lewis] At some point he said to himself, "I`m extraordinary, like Charles Chaplin." From then on nobody could tell him anything. He knew it all.
Dean Martin
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[on Gerard Depardieu] Fills the space like a young Marlon Brando. He has an extraordinary intensity.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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[on Montgomery Clift] Monty was a great talent, whose acting I always admired. He had extraordinary instincts. His observations about the script were always astute and correct. He would have made a great director, which eventually he wanted to be. "Would ...
Myrna Loy
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If you don`t have a father, you don`t miss it, because you don`t know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.
Gloria Vanderbilt
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I never had extraordinary genes or great bone structure, and I`m still very thin. What I try to do is create a body that every man can look at and say, "You know, with a certain amount of dedication I can achieve the same thing." I try to keep it in the r...
Sylvester Stallone
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On playing a character: "You can`t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle. Real courage is knowing...
Timothy Dalton
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I don`t like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don`t mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I`m open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
Sophie Okonedo
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[on making Wait Until Dark (1967)] It was the only heavy I`d ever played up until then, and I had a miserable time; I was crazy about Audrey Hepburn. I was just in awe of her. She was an extraordinary person in every way, and I just hated terrorizing her....
Alan Arkin
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He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].
Ewan McGregor
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There`s always a new thing happening to me that`s even more extraordinary, so pressure gets harder. But I like it when it`s hard. Anyone can do it when it`s easy. When it`s hard and you can do it good, you`re proud of yourself. There`s going to be more pr...
Celine Dion
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I couldn`t possibly do that. To be able to understand being five years old and write as if you were that age through the book till you get to that extraordinary flowery-pretentious age of the 18-/19-year-old. It`s so complicated when you`re dealing with m...
John Hurt
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[About Superman`s costume for `Superman Returns`]: "I always had the general idea of the suit. With X-Men, although they had extraordinary powers, they also had physical weaknesses. The suits were for protection as well as costume. Superman is the Man of ...
Bryan Singer
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[on Douglas Fairbanks] He had extraordinary magnetism and charm and a genuine boyish enthusiasm which he conveyed to the public.
Charlie Chaplin
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For the series we are using a couple of horses, most of which have worked on Sea Biscuit. Mattie, Reno, Finder and Houdini, all of which have extraordinary talents. Bobby, their trainer has them so well trained and attentive, they hit their marks without ...
Genevieve Cortese
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[On his late friend and role model, body builder Reg Park]: Reg was a dear friend, an extraordinary mentor and a personal hero. Other than my parents, there may be no single person who had more to do with me becoming the person I am today than Reg. He was...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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[on Peter Bogdanovich] You`re talking about a man who did something quite extraordinary. He was a film critic. He then went and made "The Last Picture Show," which won a few nominations for the Academy Award. He was very resented for that. Not openly, but...
Burt Reynolds
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I first met Youssou (Youssou N`Dour) with Peter (Peter Gabriel) several years ago when we worked together on an Amnesty tour. Both of them have such extraordinary voices and Peter has done a lot to promote world music in general and that should be acknowl...
Sting
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The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It`s extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that`s amazing. It`s a mir...
Chris Rock
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