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Ordinary Quotes by Sherman Alexie
- All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American…
- The ordinary can be like medicine.
- That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror…
More Ordinary Quotes
- A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him… — Irving Babbitt
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- 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
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein
- Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the… — Tony Blair
- If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg
- The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson
- I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — Andre Breton
- September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks