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- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible,… — Jorge Luis Borges
- Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler
- Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. — George Carlin
- Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows… — Willa Cather
- Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and… — Jean Cocteau
- It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton
- In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal