Ordinary Quotes - Page 19

• I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

  Alberto Sordi

  Real, Simple, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  Ian Mckellen

  America, People, Looks

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• Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I don't have to play up that stuff. I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd

  Louis Theroux

  Weekend, Idols, Play

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• I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Fun, Awards, Limos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Careers, Clay

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.109, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Real, Giving

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• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Art, Memories, Future

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.

  Katrina Kenison

  Taken, Ordinary Days, Wonderful

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• Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.

  Severino Antinori

  Children, Unique, Cloning

  "Team to attempt human cloning", www.cnn.com. March 9, 2001.

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• Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

  CL

  Thinking, People, Littles

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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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• It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

  Michelle Malkin

  Shadow, Sanctuary, Politics

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• Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

  John Dall

  Men, Average, Evil

  "Fictional character: Brandon Shaw". "Rope", 1948.

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Vision, Dimensions

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• Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

  Nick Gordon

  Eight, Light, Long Ago

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• The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

  Henry Grady Weaver

  Mean, Views, Agony

  Henry Grady Weaver (2016). “The Mainspring of Human Progress [Revised Edition]”, p.38, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

  Amedee Ozenfant

  Inspirational, Art, Demonstration

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• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Twilight, Film Directing

  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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• Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Men, Simplicity

  "Of Personal Merit", Aphorism 17, 1688.

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• Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

  Stanley Spencer

  Everyday, Together, Example

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• If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Children, Mean

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• The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Opportunity, Government, People

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Profound, Withdrawal

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• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Vision, Trying

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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