Best Ordinary People Thoughts
302 Ordinary People quotes by 244 unique authors
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
— Patricia Hill Collins
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It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
— Helen Clark
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Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical…
— Jonathan Demme
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going…
— Ted Dekker
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I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and…
— Rupert Everett
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Ordinary people have extraordinary love.
— Clay Walker
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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
— Tom Hooper
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January…
— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish…
— Diane Keaton
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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
— Franz Kafka
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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish…
— Philip Yancey
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Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
— Lorenzo di Bonaventura
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I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much…
— Leonard Baskin
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Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!
— Ernie J Zelinski
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It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.
— Hal Elrod
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary…
— Wendell Berry
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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
— Studs Terkel
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It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the…
— Ken Livingstone
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One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.
— Charles Atlas
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Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.
— Robert G. Allen
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I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar…
— Willie Pastrano
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I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in…
— Walt Disney
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Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires…
— Steve Jobs
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes…
— Hermann Hesse
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