Ordinary Quotes
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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I'm not here to transplant saints. If you just want an ordinary church, pick up the Yellow Pages and find the closest one to you.
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I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'
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But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.
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I'm just an ordinary judge from California.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.
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I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.
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It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
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I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.
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Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
