Extraordinarily Quotes
193 quotes by 181 authors
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a…
— David Attenborough
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Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
— Alton Brown
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've…
— Vince Cable
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I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed…
— Dick Cheney
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long…
— Frances M. Young
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
— Oscar Wilde
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If…
— Rick Barry
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What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates…
— Janwillem van de Wetering
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That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special…
— Tony Robbins
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We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good…
— Warren Buffett
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I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down…
— Suzanne Cory
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Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible...
— Donald Brown
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History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization…
— Olof Palme
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Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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