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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Integrity Vision Will Daring Be Different Purpose Impractical Different Anything Ordinary Against Commonplace Assert Creatures Slaves Imaginative

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward

Yourself Maturity Stumble Mistakes Laugh Able Make Human Commonplace

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus

Creativity Complicated Simple Making Commonplace

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Cheating Lying Stealing Commonplace

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Michael Ende

Life Time Great Take For Granted Thought Think Though About Rates Mystery Seldom Take Never Shared Most Known Quite Holds Which Commonplace Us Granted Each Twice Second

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. Elbert Hubbard

Great Extraordinary Minds Great Minds Interested Little Commonplace Little Minds

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People Those Seem Absent Ideal Quite Commonplace Who Present

I am not at all particular about things like hair styles and colors. Especially with women, changing their hairstyle or color is a bit too commonplace, don't you think? Akira Toriyama

You Women Hair Hairstyle Think Too Changing Bit About Color Colors Particular Like Styles Am Commonplace Things

Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives. Angus Deaton

Politicians Live State Local Positively Easily Collect About More Various Tend Could Federal Feel Failures Return Without Provide Governments Than American Which Commonplace Taxes Europeans Whom Lives Services

Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was a fairly commonplace intellectual exercise. But as the scientific method became increasingly refined, particularly through the nineteenth century, science and religion grew apart. Benjamin Wittes

God Time Religion Science Increasingly Once Nineteenth Philosophy Nineteenth Century Through Particularly Fairly Another Became Exercise Disciplines Scientific Scientific Method Method Were Existence Intellectual Refined Proving Grew Apart Commonplace Century Theology Largely

The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand. Bill Buford

Best Needs Cooking Simple Simplicity Practice Way Best Way See About Learn Learned Firsthand Go Italian Italy Very Commonplace

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. Christian Lous Lange

Spiritual People Intelligence Morality Crowd Individual Accepted Than Psychology Commonplace Mean Far Lower Acting Each Level

I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account. D. B. Weiss

Natural People Think Ourselves Possible Something More Only Tend Take Main Main Reason Like Until Because Becomes Dogs Left Account Commonplace Really Should Reason Shows Binge Start Watch

Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films. Dan Gilroy

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away. David Hanson

People Will Become Go Away More Robots Go Effect Get Experiments Commonplace Then Used Less Found Away Startling

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did. David Lee Roth

Man Vision Everybody Everybody Else Else Admired Invented Had He Ray Most Make Him Greatest Always Hamburger Go Greatest Thing Fries Did Going Just McDonald Commonplace Who Ever Thing

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us. Donald McCaig

Time Courage Better Men Smell Think Gave Sight More Civilized Could Glands Since Concentrate Making Dogs Hear Efficient Than Short Predators Commonplace Us Shrink

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