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.
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Related Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. DONNA SUMMER I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. NATALIE COLE I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job. JEREMY CORBYN A Greater Person is Someone who PLAN their OWN LIFE, or Someone Else will PLAN to Make YOU ORDINARY. RAJROCKER Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a g... KENNY G 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. SONIA SOTOMAYOR When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. ... BARRY ZITO If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's conside... VINCE VAUGHN No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today... SONIA SOTOMAYOR I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. MARY MCGARRY MORRIS I'm not the coolest person in the world. I'm not the sexiest Diva or the strongest Diva. I k... AJ LEE The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to at... ALAN MOORE I am an ordinary person. FRANCES MCDORMAND Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. CECELIA AHERN I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psycho... JOHN MAYER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinar... G.K. CHESTERTON An ordinary person is one whose life is driven by the mere motivation of making money and sees it as... ANUJ SOMANY I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm reall... ZACHARY QUINTO It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important... ALAN CUMMING Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all ... ANNIE LENNOX I've been waiting for someone, an ordinary person, to spark something in me and others that's not an... JOYCE GIBSON The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c... CARLOS CASTANEDA “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as ... CARLOS CASTANEDA Famous quotes are as common as the person who said them. What makes them famous it that someone else... TRAVIS J HEDRICK With God you cannot be an ordinary or a mediocre person SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusua... MARY BERRY You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinar... JOAN ARMATRADING It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world. RON SILVER The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c... CARLOS CASTENEDA A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'... VAN MORRISON We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV s... WADAH KHANFAR You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A person who does not feel like making a mockery of oneself only by talking openly with heart often ... ANUJ SOMANY Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ... WILLIAM BARCLAY My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all... DREE HEMINGWAY Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to unders... LEWIS GORDON PUGH I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ... ANAïS NIN I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ... ANAIS NIN I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person. WAEL GHONIM I'm trying to make the case to voters across the political spectrum that someone who brings a yo... JON OSSOFF The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscri... ALEISTER CROWLEY It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t... DAPHNE DU MAURIER I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ord... KHALED HOSSEINI I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper. EDDI READER Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. JOHANN VON GOETHE Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is so common amongst the common people of an ordinary mind to find own selfish desire as dream an... ANUJ SOMANY France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the worl... FRANCOIS HOLLANDE When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'... PHILIP YANCEY The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important ... FRANCESCO TOTTI For ordinary humans, someone crazy is highlighting, for ordinary crazy, someone human is highlightin... DANISH BARAKI I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more impo... BRUCE OLDFIELD Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary d... C.S. LEWIS This is an ordinary tool as used throughout the country but always in adherence to the Constitution ... CHUCK ROSENBERG As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person. PSY When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when ... DOUGRAY SCOTT All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person. VANESSA MAE I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of ra... JOSEPH CAMPBELL I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi'... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let so... SHAKIRA I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity... PATRICK EWING The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. HELEN KELLER Salman is genuinely a nice man who helps people. He is someone who I trust blindly. I think he has b... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. CHRISTOPHER MARKUS I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person a... RORY KENNEDY He's very outgoing and he has that style on the air. It was just that Mark is Mark, he's the same in... BILL MERCER I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around w... JUDY BLUME You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a gl... SAMIRA WILEY [As Moses,] I just want to be an ordinary man. In his head and heart, he's in the wilderness. He wan... DOUGRAY SCOTT It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, w... R.J. PALACIO Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary fo... DANA GOODYEAR Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored.... GRAHAM NORTON My life has been nothing special. I am a quiet person who came from a very ordinary, middle-class Ne... RUTH ELLIS In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world. JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous. BRITNEY SPEARS The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not ... BILLY EICHNER As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person n... RACHEL NICHOLS Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain... ROBERT HUGHES True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer. FARSHAD ASL I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. IMRAN KHAN There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and t... TIM SCOTT I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.' KRYSTEN RITTER We know by experience if the buyer is a police officer or not. An officer identifies accessories by ... ABBAS ALI The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique positio... CHARLES T. CANADY A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' i... JOHN RIDLEY I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a pla... MARGARITA LEVIEVA I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label th... DMITRY MEDVEDEV If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. JAROSLAV SEIFERT Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, y... STEVEN PINKER What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person o... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around ... VICKY ADIN Every believer is called to teach. Otherwise, they will remain a babe and never mature. Sharing what... HENRY HON At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the hol... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bi... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to ... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. S... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrad... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is movi... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The best protection any woman can have... is courage. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would'... HARRY DEAN STANTON The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the supersti... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on th... HARRY DEAN STANTON Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the o... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the rulin... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I... HARRY DEAN STANTON I heard Mr. Ing... ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch... HARRY DEAN STANTON The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her B... HARRY DEAN STANTON To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys ful... ELIZABETH CATY STANTON The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON