Common Quotes
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Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
William Francis Buckley
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I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.
Casey Affleck
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As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.
Richard Thompson
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
Stuart Wilde
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We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.
Thomas Keating
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Common sense is not always common practice.
Stephen Covey
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I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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Life is lived in common, but not in community.
Michael Harrington
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Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
Willie Parker
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
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I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.
Terry Gross
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Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
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Common sense often makes a good law.
William O. Douglas
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
Tacitus
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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
Horace
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
Stewart Udall
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Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.
Stephen Covey
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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
Mike Zimmer
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We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
Geert Wilders
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.
Sun Myung Moon
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
Cate Blanchett
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Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.
William Herbert Hobbs