Ordinary People Quotes - Page 3

• If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.

  Avi Lewis

  Phones, People, Community

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

  Dean Baker

  Hate, War, People

  "Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?" by Dean Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's where I feel comfortable and confident and I get to explore these big human stories and dramas and collaborate with extraordinary people, great talented artists and administrators and other people who are passionate about it and support it. It's like working with a great big family - the family you love and enjoy being with all the time.

  Jake Heggie

  Drama, Home, Artist

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

  Ryan Seacrest

  People, Giving, Ordinary

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• [Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

  Robert Redford

  People, Ordinary, Wonderful

  "The Untold Story of Ordinary People" by Sara Vilkomerson, microsites.ew.com. 2016.

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• The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

  Anuj

  People, Ordinary, Different

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• Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, People, Great Love

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• Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.

  Angela Merkel

  Character, Men, People

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• The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

  Robert Payne

  Men, Games, People

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Robert Payne, "A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society", p. 279, 1975.

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• When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

  Joan Anderson

  Angel, Thinking, People

  Joan Wester Anderson (2009). “In the Arms of Angels: True Stories of Heavenly Guardians”, p.26, Loyola Press

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• Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Science

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• We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humour. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.

  Margot Adler

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Smart, Character, Mean

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• I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.

  Judah Smith

  Love, Peace, Struggle

  "Pastor Judah Smith: Justin Bieber has taught me about faith". Interview with Sasha Savitsk, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2015.

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• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

  Ted Dekker

  Christian, Light, People

  "Best-selling author shaped by cannibals, Christianity" by Eric Marrapodi, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2009.

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• I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

  Rupert Everett

  Years, People, Flying

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• Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

  Clay Walker

  People, Ordinary, Adages

  Song: Ordinary People

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• Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

  Tom Hooper

  People, Ordinary, Actors

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• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  People, Directors, Boards

  "Edgar Bronfman Jr. Steps Down as Warner Music Group Chairman" by Lucas Shaw, www.thewrap.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

  Diane Keaton

  Mean, Years, People

  "The Upside of Turning 60" by Diane Keaton, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2006.

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• We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, People, Doubt

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• I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Jobs, Roots, People

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

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• Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

  Jonathan Demme

  Athlete, People, Challenges

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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