Ordinary Quotes
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Ordinariness Quotes
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Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
Susan Cheever
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Linda Thorson
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
Alexander Pope
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To me, photography is an art of observation. It`s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I`ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
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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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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant
Dalai Lama
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don`t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I am an ordinary guy who likes normal things, and have feelings like a normal human being.
Chad Murray
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No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingmar Bergman
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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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I came to New York to be a legend, and within five minutes of realizing I was an interesting kid and other people thought so, I had given myself a nervous breakdown. I was 26 years old before I knew what it was like to have an ordinary day.
Vincent Gallo
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[Upon receiving his Academy Award for Ordinary People (1980)]: This is for my dad. I wish he were here to see it.
Timothy Hutton
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I don`t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Elizabeth Taylor
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I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can`t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Albert Einstein
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Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effect to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a terrible witness in court because of this-and a terrible journalist. I feel compelled to a story th...
Federico Fellini
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[on is marriage to Maureen Cox] She`s just sort of ordinary, she`s from Liverpool. And the genuine fans wrote in saying, you know, "If you are going with her, good luck and I hope you`re happy".
Ringo Starr
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn`t argue about that, I`m right and will be proved right. We`re (the Beatles) more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It`s them twisting it that ru...
John Lennon
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No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
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The thing about being famous is, first of all, it`s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people. So there`s this unspoken club where you go, and say to each other: `Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn`t be ...
Margot Kidder
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I am a ordinary teenager.I fall in love like everyone else.
Jake Epstein
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If a man is touched by genius, he is not an ordinary person. He doesn`t lead an ordinary life. He has extremes of behaviour which you understand and you just find a way not to be swept overboard by his demons. - On Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright
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If a man is touched by genius, he is not an ordinary person. He doesn`t lead an ordinary life. He has extremes of behaviour which you understand and you just find a way not to be swept overboard by his demons. - On Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright
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(Of her Mrs. Robinson role in `The Graduate`) Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we`ll reach a point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we`d do and become will never come to be - and that we`re or...
Anne Bancroft
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