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• Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Believe, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church - not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. - the average person might take notice.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Technology, Average, People

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• Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

  Eric Butterworth

  Strong, Average, Achievement

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• I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

  Questlove

  Real, Average, Four

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• The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Spiritual, Book

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• Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Average, Testicles, Breasts

  "How Many Lawyers Do You Need To Fry Spam?" by Jean Godden, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. October 9, 1991.

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• The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

  Steven Sample

  Average, Suffering, Three

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• Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Power, Average, Alcohol

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• You know what the average person is? Average.

  Richard Jeni

  Average, Persons, Knows

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• Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

  Dick Morris

  Caring, Media, Average

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press

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• Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'

  Bob Geldof

  Lying, Heart, Average

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• Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.

  Mehmet Oz

  Average, Together, Tvs

  "Dr. Oz Talks to Oprah About Food, Family and What It Really Means to Be Healthy". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, People, Typical

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.66, Random House

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• There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Average, People, Effort

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.267, Vintage

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• We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Country, Thinking, Average

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• I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, Average, Persons

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• Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Believe, Intelligent, Average

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• I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sex, Stress, Average

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Media, Average

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Airplane, Average

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.

  Ice T

  Artist, Voice, Average

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I do think that even if the average person doesn't care, it IS a big deal. Like, it's been a foundational principle of our democracy for 240 years.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Average, Years

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Average, Long

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

  Josh Brolin

  Thinking, Average, Jail

  "Double trouble" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now it’s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea what’s going on.

  Seth Klarman

  Average, Ideas, People

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