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• It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.

  Ron Fournier

  Dream, Country, Hard Work

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• The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

  Thomas Frank

  Hero, Islands, Would Be

  Thomas Frank (2012). “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

  Brian Greene

  Creativity, Men, Inspire

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• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Teacher, Children, War

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• I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

  David Icke

  Eye, Two, Black

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Opportunity, Race

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama: 'He struggled to create hope - and succeeded'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Medicine, Suffering, Patents

  Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

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• I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

  Angelina Jolie

  Grateful, People, Honor

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• Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Daryn Kagan

  War, People, Ordinary

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• Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Interesting, African American, Get Better

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• I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Gay

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• There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Jon Landau

  Summer, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

  Annie Lennox

  Powerful, People, Emotion

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• I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Information, Internet

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• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Grief, Dirty, Book

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• It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

  Liam Neeson

  Littles, Tiny, Grew Up

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  Rachel Nichols

  Car, Extravagance, Expenses

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• I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

  Christopher Nolan

  Lucky, Pessimist, Persons

  "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.

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• I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

  Christopher Nolan

  Kids, Blade Runner, Fans

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• We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

  Peter O'Toole

  Morning, Travel, Adventure

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  Barack Obama

  War, Police, Succeed

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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• I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, People, Empowerment

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• I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

  Michelle Obama

  Brother, Husband, Believe

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

  Susan Orlean

  Beautiful, Animal, People

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

  Jacques Pepin

  Bread, Beats, Hard

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