Extraordinary Quotes - Page 39

• What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Use, Moments, Built

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 12, 2011

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• I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

  Darrell Hammond

  Doctors, Brain, Dialogue

  "Darrell Hammond Book: Comedian Reveals Childhood Abuse, Psychiatric Treatment". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I think the chemistry on the Orange set is extraordinary and I’m going to risk and say this: I think by virtue of the fact that there are not so many men, we are free to be absolutely authentic. There is a lot of freedom and trust.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Men, Thinking, Orange

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• She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.

  John Huston

  Unique, Technique, Down And

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• I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

  Thomas Keller

  Believe, Inspiration, Thought Provoking

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• If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.

  Meryle Secrest

  Creative, House, Mind

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• There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.

  Cesar Aira

  Dream, Views, Everyday

  César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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• Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.

  John Hagelin

  Meditation, Degrees, Violence

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• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  Eustace Conway

  Men, Media, Ideas

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• I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Odds, Stories, Survived

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• The founder of every ex-gay ministry in America has proved to be an extraordinary failure. The two founders of Exodus International, [the world's largest 'ex-gay' organization], divorced their wives to move in together.

  Wayne Besen

  Moving, Gay, Organization

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• I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

  David Hockney

  People, Interesting, Doubt

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

  Steven Berkoff

  Analysis, Controversial, Interpretation

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• When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

  Alice Waters

  Taste, Ingredients, Cooks

  Alice Waters (2010). “The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution”, p.14, Clarkson Potter

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• I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Thinking, Everyday

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• Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

  Amedee Ozenfant

  Inspirational, Art, Ordinary

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• Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

  Jim Clyburn

  Iraq, Expectations, Effort

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• Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

  Diane Arbus

  Should Have, People, Ironic

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• There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Light, Quiet

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Coincidence, Don't Believe

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.283, Spectra

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• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Profound, Sublime

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ideas, Effort, Age

  "Collected Works: Principles of political economy".

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• Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

  Augustus

  Want, Extraordinary Life, Ordinary Life

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• No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Thinking, Land, Names

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

  Judith Jamison

  Native American, African American, Gone

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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