Ordinary Quotes
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I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
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If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
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It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
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What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
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The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
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Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.
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I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
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I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.
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William Eggleston sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.
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Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
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What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
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If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
