Best Ordinary People Lines
302 Ordinary People quotes by 244 unique authors
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
— Viola Davis
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I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be…
— Vladimir Semichastny
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God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.
— Joel Osteen
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Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state,…
— George Pataki
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I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given…
— Melita Norwood
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We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes,…
— Margot Adler
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The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
— Yohji Yamamoto
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Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how he…
— Richard Ramirez
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Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.
— Khem Veasna
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We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are…
— Barry Goldwater
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When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true…
— Zhuangzi
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
— Patricia Stephens Due
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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back…
— Eddie Redmayne
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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
— Norman Spinrad
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I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm…
— Rachael Taylor
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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary…
— Mo Yan
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
— Walter Lord
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
— Charles C. Mann
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There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is…
— Edward Zwick
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We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people…
— Regina Brett
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The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
— Phil Gramm
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early…
— Russell Banks
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