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I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
Bernie Mac
Job
Extraordinary
Guy
Ordinary
Ordinary Guy
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
Thoughts
Progress
Language
Addiction
Our
Philosophy
Remain
Main
Obstacles
Obstinate
Private
Ordinary
Convinced
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
Bjarke Ingels
You
Brilliant
Sense
Fathom
Something
Fact
No Sense
Mortals
Makes
Understandable
Banal
Just
Ordinary
Explain
Mean
Might
Means
Actually
Necessarily
Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
Bonnie Raitt
Life
Work
Home
Woman
Sometimes
Will
Able
More
Onstage
Exciting
True
Make
Learn
Got
How
Up
Than
Ordinary
Then
Regular
I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.
Brandon Stanton
World
Perspective
Important
Someone
More
Perhaps
Equally
Privileged
Person
Just
Famous
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Who
Unique
Believer
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
Brian Perkins
Truth
Truth Is
Extraordinary
Statement
Fact
Make
Sounds
Very
In Fact
Ordinary
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
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
Bruce Jackson
Death
Buy
Time
You
Generation
Say
Parent
Puts
Between
Because
Ordinary
Next
Means
Standing
They Say
Now
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
Buzz Aldrin
Life
My Life
Person
Common
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Realize
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
C. K. Williams
Music
You
Waiting
Writing
Sometimes
Language
Every
Way
Kind
About
Poem
Poems
Poetry
Never
Come
Know
Going
The Hardest Thing
Different
Ordinary
Different Kind
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Necessity
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten
Will
More
Kitten
Questions
Five-Year-Old
Than
Any
Ordinary
Ask
The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.
Catherine of Siena
God
Time
Great
Soul
Better
Space
Honor
Goodness
Herself
Virtues
Remaining
Lifted
Towards
Know
Exercising
Self-Knowledge
Souls
Yearning
Very
Begins
Salvation
Cell
Order
Ordinary
Certain
Who
Her
Desire
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
Charles Francis Richter
Simple
Safety
Component
Horizontal
Structures
Simple Reason
Factor
Put
Emphasis
Acceleration
Vertical
Ordinary
Reason
Gravity
The Inhumans, just as an idea - the idea that you were an ordinary horseman until you were exposed to this catalyst that is a very rare element - is a neat idea in and of itself.
Charles Soule
You
Rare
Horseman
Catalyst
Idea
Until
Were
Itself
Very
Just
Ordinary
Exposed
Element
Neat
Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.
Chris Gardner
Fashion
Parenting
You
Compassion
Big
Style
Lesson
Imagination
Out
No Big Deal
Ability
Miraculous
Seems
Talents
Deal
Got
Big Deal
Curiosity
May
Maybe
Anything
Ordinary
Skills
Your
Unique
Even
Things
Here
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
Chris Van Allsburg
Me
Extraordinary
Idea
Context
Happening
Ordinary
Fascinating
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe
Travel
Experience
Space
Citizen
Important
President
All Americans
Excitement
Felt
American
Send
Representative
Space Travel
Ordinary
Ordinary Citizen
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
Christoph Waltz
Today
You
Tomorrow
Something
Open
Make
Up
Very
Hold
Ordinary
Might
Sparkle
Special
Grasp
Keep
Elevate
Champagne
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
Christoph Waltz
You
Extraordinary
Would
Constitute
Between
Because
Always
In-Between
Ordinary
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
Christopher Hitchens
Morality
Ordinary
View
Innate
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
Christopher Koch
Life
World
Difficult
Find
All Writers
Boring
Rather
Various
Both
Various Reasons
Neurotic
Writers
Retreat
Obviously
Because
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Reasons
Imaginary
Imaginary World
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
If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection.
Christopher Robin Milne
Country
Affection
Live
Back
About
Seem
Write
Part
Look
Most
Because
Greatest
Boy
Childhood
Ordinary
Happily
Ordinary Things
Who
Things
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.
Claire Cameron
Life
You
Book
Old
Extraordinary
Everything
Photograph
Find
Potential
Take
Simply
Look
Closer
Ordinary
Whether
Need
The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.
Claire Denis
Me
People
Cinema
Sometimes
Focus
Extraordinary
Part
Motivates
Existences
Situations
Human
Ordinary
Places
Ordinary Situations
Really
Should
Lives
I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.
Clive Cussler
Me
Thought
Honestly
Books
Out
Seem
Sell
Did
Ordinary
Million
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