Extraordinary Quotes - Page 24

• Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

  Lance Armstrong

  Allegations, Evidence

  "Lance Armstrong shying away from a fight is an extraordinary moment" by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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• We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

  Julian Assange

  War, Civilization, Serious

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Arrogance, Church

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• I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Travel, Mean

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• It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

  David Attenborough

  Self, People, Goes On

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• The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

  David Attenborough

  Discovery, Missing, Trying

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• It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  David Bailey

  Photography, Art, Learning

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• I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

  Martha Beck

  Attitude, Optimistic, Opportunity

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• A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Responsibility, Reaching Up, Voice

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• I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Play, Numbers

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• I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Cinema, Action

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

  Bill Bryson

  Paris, Water, Achievement

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• 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.

  David Cameron

  Country, Queens, Games

  "David Cameron cites Gospel of John in Christmas message" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2012.

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• I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

  Dick Cheney

  Real, Cities, Ideas

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

  Margaret Cho

  Giving Up, Reality, World

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• I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Good Luck, Broken

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• I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Believe, Technology

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• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  Gail Collins

  Husband, Nice, Thinking

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• Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Art, Men, Intellectual

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Emotional, Editing, Essence

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• You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

  Timothy Dalton

  Real, Struggle, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.

  Evan Davis

  Running, Character, Tunnels

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• We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

  Junot Diaz

  Hardship, Matter, Way

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• John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.

  Junot Diaz

  Fighting, Doubt, Tights

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• Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Looks, Littles

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