Best Ordinary Person Quotes
70 Ordinary Person quotes by 61 unique authors
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When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something…
— Brian Chesky
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What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as…
— Sydney J. Harris
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
— Fay Weldon
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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask…
— Annie Lennox
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
— Blaise Pascal
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I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
— Julia Roberts
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are…
— Nicholas Sparks
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A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.
— Christopher Reeve
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What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about…
— Studs Terkel
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There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
— Alan Moore
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How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need…
— Joseph Campbell
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
— C.S. Lewis
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
— Haruki Murakami
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Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas…
— Haruki Murakami
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The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have…
— Paulo Coelho
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Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
— Alexander Theroux
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.
— Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then…
— Rachel Joyce
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
— Wael Ghonim
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and…
— Wadah Khanfar
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