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Ordinary people want good government.
Subramanian Swamy
Government
Good
People
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Good Government
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
Ted Dekker
Truth
Faith
People
Darkness
Light
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Circumstances
Way
Circumstances
Unmistakable
Kind
About
Through
Overcomes
How
Any
Going
Anyone
Stories
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary People
Exploring
Who
Even
Christians
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
Walter Lord
People
Extraordinary
Something
Highly
Look
Involving
Unusual
Caught
Situations
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Ordinary Situations
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
William J. Clinton
Government
Good
People
Wealth
Voting
Power
First
Party
Tea
Believe
Think
True
Voters
First Of All
Well
Years
Government Power
Years And Years
Lot
Done
Candidates
Impulses
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Really
Tea Party
Who
There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
Adam Curtis
Work
Science
People
World
Sometimes
Amazing
Imagination
Other
Parallel
See
Shaping
Day-To-Day
Powerful
Parts
How
Making
Scientists
Discoveries
Effect
Role
Patiently
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Public
Researching
Actual
Millions
Two
Universes
Plays
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
Alberto Sordi
Life
People
Simple
Real Life
Reflect
Approach
Later
Laugh
Adopt
Observe
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Real
Very
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Raises
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
Barbara Demick
People
Edge
Live
Starvation
Punish
Mostly
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Sanctions
Who
Agree
Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
Barton Gellman
Trust
People
Phone
Employees
Believe
Secrets
Phone Calls
Systems
Collection
Case
Deliberately
Records
Takes
Along
Mission
Calls
Content
Foreign
Bulk
Targets
Handle
American
Snowden
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Agency
Grants
Swept
Large
Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.
Ben Domenech
People
Positions
Voice
Absolute
Square
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Public
Working
Companies
Chains
Right
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Ben Stein
People
Amazing
Out
Without
Preconceived
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Notions
Set
If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.
Benigno Aquino III
Today
People
Father
Heroes
Superman
Extraordinary
Say
Alive
Respond
Would
Properly
He
Caught
Were
Effect
Up
Times
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Really
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
Bruce Feiler
Courage
People
Father
Action
Live
Gave
Risk
Uncertainty
He
True
Moses
Became
Because
America
Ordinary
Justified
Ordinary People
Founding
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Christopher Lasch
People
Language
Increasingly
Unable
Finds
Because
Tradition
Left
Itself
Common
Common Language
Ordinary
Converse
Ordinary People
Prejudice
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.
David Liss
Saying
Culture
People
Once
Magic
More
Superstitions
Habits
Democratic
Am
Lot
Often
Different
Ordinary
While
Ordinary People
Customs
Separate
Show
Many
Popular
Whole
Popular Culture
Biologically
I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
Dawn Steel
Success
Love
People
Human Being
Seen
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Guys
Never
Had
Idea
Doing
Snow
Human
Just
Being
Jamaica
Ordinary
Whether
Which
Ordinary People
Ordinary Things
Who
Cool
Things
Four
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.
Debra Granik
Service
You
People
Problem
World
Cinema
Amazing
Down
Think
Incredible
See
Gladiator
Come
Until
Documentaries
Buffet
Well
Lot
Role
Just
After
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Initially
Sudden
Lives
Streaming
Plays
When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.
Derek Cianfrance
Great
People
Try
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
Relationships
Backdrop
Intimate
Extremely
Details
Small
Cast
Make
Dealing
Ordinary
Against
Ordinary People
Epic
Actor
Interpersonal
When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores Huerta
History
You
Yourself
People
First
Community
Group
Other
Able
About
Give
Like
Look
Talk
First Thing
Were
Been
Accomplish
List
The First Thing
The History Of
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Them
Workers
Working
Working People
Organizing
Thing
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Doris Lessing
Respect
Learning
People
Past
Society
Books
Respected
Disappeared
Very
In The Past
Ordinary
Literature
Ordinary People
Realize
Much
Whole
Serious
Now
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.
Doug Stanton
Life
Conflict
People
Writing
Opportunities
Dramatic
About
Superheroes
Talk
Provided
Person
Substantial
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Really
Moments
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Edmund Morgan
Politics
History
Culture
People
Definition
Has-Been
High
Rather
Only
Colonial
Almost
New
Faint
Period
Traces
Leave
Been
Existence
Proving
Than
America
Behind
Unfortunately
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary People
Social
Ground
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
Emilio Estevez
Man
People
Focus
Thought
Extraordinary
Would
Rather
More
Make
Always
Hiring
Than
Just
Wanted
Ordinary
Story
Ordinary Man
Ordinary People
Bobby
Required
Actor
Universal
When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.
Fiona Barton
You
People
Events
Think
Extraordinary
About
Thrillers
Involve
Often
Psychological
Happening
Ordinary
Ordinary People
I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.
Frank Lautenberg
Work
Buy
Good
Day
Me
Every Day
People
Will
Every
Say
Distributed
Eat
More
Any
Tax
Want
Tax Cut
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Cut
Who
Among
Need
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars
Music
People
Feelings
Way
Touching
Another
Another Way
Making
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Lives
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks
Courage
People
Gone
September
Heroism
Through
Never
Revealed
Demonstrate
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Might
Who
Lives
Extent
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