Extraordinary Quotes
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I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
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Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.
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Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
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I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.
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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
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Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.
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That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.
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But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.
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Cape Town is beautiful. It's an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.
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Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
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You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.
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Humans aren’t that extraordinary. We’re small. The more humans tell themselves they are giant, the more I feel like I’m losing sight of myself. Humans are only as big as a human can be.”
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
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If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
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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 take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
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I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraordinary person whom I have known for a long time.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
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Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing.
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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
