Average Quotes
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If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
Seth Godin
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Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.
David Crabb
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We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
Marian Wright Edelman
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You can't win by being more average than average.
Seth Godin
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I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.
Marilyn Monroe
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Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
Buddy Rich
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Stephen Covey
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What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?
Regis Philbin
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The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.
George Barna
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The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.
Carol Bly
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It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.
Jesse Livermore
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When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
Ethan Zuckerman
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
Marilyn Monroe
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Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.
Paul Auster
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My acting was only average. I wasn't dedicated. Starting as a tot and working for twenty years was long enough, so I quit. The fan mail still arrives . . . why, I don't know.
Anne Shirley
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You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.
Eric Thomas
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But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
Tim Ferriss
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The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.
Whitney Thompson
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
Seth Godin
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According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.
Paul Craig Roberts
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If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover to the ten-year is only 35 basis points, and 25 basis points into the 30-year - it's a fairly small spillover effect.
Gary Shilling
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If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
Salvador Dali
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
Sherman Alexie
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
Henrik Ibsen