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• Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

  George Jones

  Country, Real, Simple

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• For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

  James Bovard

  Dark, Night, Average

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• I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.

  Chuck Darby

  Player, Thinking, Average

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• I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  College, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Christian, Daughter

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• Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.

  Michael Flynn

  Exercise, Fighting, Average

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• An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

  Brian Tracy

  Running, Circles, Average

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.

  David Starkey

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.

  Nicki Minaj

  Brother, Real, Mean

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

  Neil Armstrong

  Technology, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

  James Cameron

  Average, Fans, Details

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Average, Pinterest

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• Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

  Rachel Bilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therf—ker down!

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Chris Rock Talks Health Care Reform, Democratic Party’s Timidity". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2010.

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• As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

  Ethel Merman

  Drama, Average, Turns

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Faith

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

  James Cameron

  Reading, Writing, Average

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Believe, Fall

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• The average person tells a few white lies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Lying, Average, White

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• The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

  Christian D. Larson

  Average, People, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “The Ideal Made Real: Or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

  Don Chadwick

  Photography, Average, Focus

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• I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

  Harvey Pekar

  Thinking, Ordinary Days, Average

  Interview with Gary Groth, classic.tcj.com. 1984.

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• People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Average, People

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• I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Believe, Average, Maps

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• If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.

  Demetri Martin

  Average, Scream, Ends

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.41, Hachette UK

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