Extraordinary Quotes - Page 6

• Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

  John Schlesinger

  Hollywood, Kind, Temporary

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• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Lord

  People, Ordinary, Looks

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• You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Wrath, Example

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• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  Uma Thurman

  Fun, Challenges, Difficult

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• God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

  A. B. Simpson

  Humble, Character, Age

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• The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

  Ashley Judd

  Home, Media, Police

  ashley judd @AshleyJudd, twitter.com. March 17, 2015.

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• God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Ordinary, Use

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.

  O. J. Brigance

  Accomplishment, Challenges, Overcoming

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• When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Leadership, Opportunity, Men

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• Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage.

  Midori Komatsu

  Crazy, Passion, Heart

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• If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Waiting, Missing, Special

  "Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life". Book by Dani Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.

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• Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.

  Arianna Huffington

  Daughter, Fear, Resilience

  'On Becoming Fearless,' by Arianna Huffington, abcnews.go.com. September 13, 2006.

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• Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  God, Believe, Soul

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• Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Artist, Agency, Creative

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• You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

  Judy Holliday

  Smart, Play, Dumb

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• An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Arrogance, Firsts, Claims

  "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, People, Ordinary

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• I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Science, Claims

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

  George Will

  Wise, Positive Thinking, Ordinary

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

  Clifford Geertz

  Intellectual, Literature, Fields

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• It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

  Riccardo Muti

  Study, New Things

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• Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Liberty, Ordinary, Use

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• My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

  Adyashanti

  Fundamentals, Infinite, Truth Is

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• Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Two, Age

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• I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

  Debbie Harry

  New Year, Years, Lovely

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