Common Quotes
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Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.
Garrison Wynn -
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.
Thomas Nagel
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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 -
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
Susanne Langer -
We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.
Ari L. Goldman -
Common sense is not always common practice.
Stephen Covey -
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
Stewart Udall -
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
Stephen Fry
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The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.
Caroline Myss -
I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
Ernest Cline -
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 -
The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
Paul Newman -
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
Rowan Williams
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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 -
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
Terence McKenna -
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Russell M. Nelson -
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Tommy Lee Jones -
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 -
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Dolly Parton