Extraordinary Quotes
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The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
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Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.
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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 talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
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Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?
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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
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Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.
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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
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The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.
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I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
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His Grace explained his choice of bride as follows: “Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.
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The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.
