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The average person has one Fallopian tube. -- Bo Burnham
I believe I am more intelligent than the average person. -- Mario Balotelli
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -- Andy Rooney
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. -- Mike Tyson
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. -- Richard P. Feynman
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. -- Demetri Martin
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations. -- Daniel Tammet
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. -- Herbie Hancock
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year. -- Wallace Shawn
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues. -- Lisa Marie Presley
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. -- Andrew Carnegie
I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it. -- J. Cole
I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching. -- Michael Eric Dyson
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. -- Andrew Carnegie
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. -- Wilson Mizner
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. -- George Carlin
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. -- Ivor Novello
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. -- William Ralph Inge
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs. -- KatÃ³ Lomb
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. -- Mary Kay Ash
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. -- Brian Tracy
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. -- Martha Reeves
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. -- Peter Drucker
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person. -- Brian Tracy
We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind. -- Paul Watson
The average person tells a few white lies. -- Zooey Deschanel
I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person. -- Ben Bernanke
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. -- David Augsburger
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life. -- Jack Nicholson
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory. -- Buzz Aldrin
When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals. -- Terence Winter
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach. -- Peter Drucker
Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge. -- Gareth Gates
I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent. -- Willie Aames
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells. -- Richard Carmona
We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. -- Paul Watson
The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day! -- Jessica Simpson
You know what the average person is? Average. -- Richard Jeni
My exploits are nothing now to the average person. -- David Bailey
Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading. -- Haruki Murakami
The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom. -- Lowkey
A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle. -- Dixie Lee Ray
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. -- Francis Quarles
There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing. -- Bruce McLaren
Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them. -- Tom T. Hall
The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek. -- Homer
The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average. -- Sam Levenson
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots. -- Bill Hybels
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. -- Tom Waits
I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics. -- Stephan Pastis
I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am. -- DMX
I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding -- Kanye West
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. -- Richard P. Feynman
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. -- Laurie Anderson
I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work. -- Jack Levin
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better. -- Curtis Jackson
A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime. -- Billy Graham
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. -- Robert Breault
We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better. -- Ben Silbermann
If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot. -- Demetri Martin
Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30? -- Rachel Bilson
I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed. -- Tim Armstrong
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals. -- Brian Tracy
If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is. -- Karl Lagerfeld
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. -- Ethel Merman
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require. -- Christian D. Larson
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . -- Harvey Pekar
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand -- Ethel Merman
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better. -- Ben Silbermann
Yes! The average person with no budget, and with little or no initial online presence, can produce a viral marketing miracle! -- Ken Poirot
I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously. -- Helen Gurley Brown
People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person. -- Gloria Gaynor
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent. -- Brian Tracy
I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous. -- Kim Jee-woon
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. -- Joel Salatin
I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized. -- Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing. -- Seth MacFarlane
I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day. -- Questlove
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. -- Thomas A. Edison
When you have big dreams, you're going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems. -- Joel Osteen
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church. -- Ravi Zacharias
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison. -- Napoleon Hill
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. -- Frank Barron
You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy? -- Jeremy Grantham
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that. -- Ivan Stang
Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners. -- Alfred Sheinwold
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done. -- Isaiah Washington
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. -- Bruce Barton
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. -- William J. Brennan
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago. -- Philip Greenspun
I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course. -- Jeaniene Frost
I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out. -- Michael Spiller
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. -- Alan Guth
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. -- Jerome K. Jerome
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special. -- James Bovard
An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. -- Brian Tracy
We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. -- Bob Barker
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. -- Peter Diamandis
Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person. -- Jim Rohn
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory. -- Dick Dale
Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor. -- Beatrice Lillie
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving. -- Earl Nightingale
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person. -- Daniel Gilbert
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice. -- Don Chadwick
Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person. -- Dick Morris
A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England -- Richard Saul Wurman
But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. -- Sydney J. Harris
Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential. -- Emily Post
I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime. -- W. C. Fields
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution. -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
I do think that even if the average person doesn't care, it IS a big deal. Like, it's been a foundational principle of our democracy for 240 years... -- Christopher Michael Cillizza

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