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• I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

  Katy Perry

  Lonely, Adventure, Night

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• Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Tree

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• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  Rachael Ray

  Dream, Dog, Sweet

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• I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Ordinary, Persons

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

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• America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

  Marco Rubio

  America, People, Everyday

  "Rubio introduces Romney, vision of GOP future" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  Salman Rushdie

  Produce, Terrible, Situation

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• At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Height, Empires, England

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• In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Haunting, Stranger

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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Block

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• McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Pioneers, Retail

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• I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, White, House

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• I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Extraordinary Person, People

  Transcript of Obama-Sotomayor announcement, edition.cnn.com. May 26, 2009.

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• If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Snow, Mountain

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Party, Men, People

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• The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

  Matt Taibbi

  Running, Government, Gone

  "Secrets and Lies of the Bailout". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

  Twyla Tharp

  Father, Piano, Four

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Thar". Interview with Daviv Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Peace, Ordinary Extraordinary

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Atrocities, Capacity

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• Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Somewhere Else, Water, Would Be

  Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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• You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

  Christoph Waltz

  Ordinary, Ifs

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• This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

  Ai Weiwei

  Dream, Years, Games

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• It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Numbers, Giving

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• Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

  Ron Wyden

  Sacrifice, States, National Guard

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• Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Meaningful, Creativity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Oct 11, 2012

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