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I am an ordinary person. -- Frances McDormand
I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job. -- Julia Roberts
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. -- Edmund Hillary
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. -- Joe Slovo
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people. -- Brian Chesky
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. -- George Will
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. -- C. S. Lewis
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn. -- Lou Holtz
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. -- Blaise Pascal
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day. -- Chris Bohjalian
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him. -- Henry Blackaby
If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. -- Jaroslav Seifert
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! -- Philip Yancey
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you. -- Peter Deunov
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government. -- Walter E. Williams
Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it. -- Rajneesh
Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people. -- Werner Erhard
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle... -- Sydney J. Harris
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer. -- Peter Drucker
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone. -- Terence McKenna
Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia, will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires. -- Walter E. Williams
I'm just an ordinary person. -- Annie Lennox
I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person. -- Liu Wen
Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. -- Donna Summer
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia. -- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person. -- Wael Ghonim
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. -- Sidney Poitier
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! -- Philip Yancey
I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. -- Dougray Scott
For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all. -- Jody Williams
If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing. -- Vince Vaughn
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves. -- Rachel Joyce
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas. -- Joan Armatrading
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail. -- Elliot Richardson
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. -- Gene Wilder
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person. -- Annie Lennox
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. -- Tracy Kidder
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice. -- Wadah Khanfar
I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. -- Cecelia Ahern
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. -- Fay Weldon
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person. -- Buzz Aldrin
Refuse to be an extraordinary person trapped in an ordinary life. -- Zero Dean
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. -- Iyanla Vanzant
A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way. -- Christopher Reeve
I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. -- Mary McGarry Morris
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. -- Veronique Vienne
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience. -- Thomas Jefferson
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. -- Alan Moore
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. -- Aleister Crowley
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. -- Blaise Pascal
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. -- C. S. Lewis
To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. -- Veronica Roth
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . -- Harvey Pekar
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. -- Khaled Hosseini
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion. -- Mason Cooley
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. -- Anuj
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow. -- William Zinsser
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things. -- Michael Pollan
Take new values : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. -- Frank Herbert
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Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others. -- Sayo Masuda
It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort. -- Narendra Modi
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person. -- Ken Livingstone
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. -- Peter Ackroyd
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful! -- Gustave Flaubert
What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child. -- James Hillman
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'. -- Graham Norton
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I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus. -- Christine Sneed
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. -- Anthony Kennedy
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear. -- Thomas A. Edison
When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader. -- Awdhesh Singh
Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person. -- David Letterman

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