Ordinary Quotes
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It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.
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Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.
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Consciously cultivate 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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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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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I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
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until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
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I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
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I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
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It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
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I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
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There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
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The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
