Average Quotes
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The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
Sherrod Brown
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You can't win by being more average than average.
Seth Godin
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The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
Montgomery Clift
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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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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
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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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Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
Ethan Zuckerman
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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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So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.
Eric Thomas
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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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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Francis Quarles
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The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
Ivor Novello
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On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.
Morgan Saylor
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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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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 can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
Tilman J. Fertitta
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I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.
Eric Thomas
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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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The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.
George Barna
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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 you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
Seth Godin
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I love a glass of champagne. It can make even the most average Monday seem like a Saturday night. I always say there's happiness in every bubble!
Cat Deeley
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
William Lyon Phelps