Ordinary People Quotes - Page 11

• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  Pat Robertson

  People, Ordinary, Constitution

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• I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

  Steven Spielberg

  People, Ordinary, Preoccupation

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

  Pete Townshend

  Order, People, Theatre

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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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• Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Secret Love, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.57, Om Books International

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• Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Choices

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, September 11, Heroism

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• The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

  Pam Brown

  Dark, People, Ordinary

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• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Long, People

  "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

  William J. Clinton

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Resistance

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Judging, People, Leader

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Able, Principles

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

  Naomi Wolf

  Party, People, Tea

  "God Crashes the Tea Party" by Naomi Wolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Ignorance, People

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Passion, People

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hero, Simple, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.

  Diane Duane

  Hurt, Morning, Live Life

  "So You Want To Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, Book 1)". Book by Diane Duane, 1983.

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• For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Giving, Events

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

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• Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Jobs, People, Ordinary

  "The Perils of Obedience," Harper's Magazine, 1974.

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• We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

  Ricky Gervais

  Real, Drama, Struggle

  "Ricky Gervais Has An Animated Post-'Office' Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 3, 2010.

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