Quotes about Extraordinary People (196 quotes)

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is. Votes: 2

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people. Votes: 2

Ross Kemp

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. Votes: 2

Robertson Davies

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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. Votes: 2

Rupert Everett

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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. Votes: 2

Jonathan Demme

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'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss. Votes: 2

Hoda Kotb

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Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe. Votes: 2

George Pataki

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I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe. Votes: 2

Marisa Berenson

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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. Votes: 2

Diane Keaton

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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. Votes: 2

Eddie Redmayne

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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. Votes: 2

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary Votes: 1

Anuj Somany

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Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary. Votes: 1

Anuj

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Ordinary people have extraordinary love. Votes: 0

Clay Walker

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Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Patricia Stephens Due

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Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Votes: 0

Gerard Way

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There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Neal Shusterman

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When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. Votes: 0

Brian Houston

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The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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People don't follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people. Votes: 0

Enock Maregesi

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Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. Votes: 0

Michael Gerber

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People are the key to success or extraordinary success. Votes: 0

Azim Premji

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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made. Votes: 0

Barbara Broccoli

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Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people. Votes: 0

Andy Andrews

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...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Richard Goldman

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love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people. Votes: 0

Anita Shreve

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The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! Votes: 0

Ernie J Zelinski

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Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Theodore Levitt

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Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. Votes: 0

Enoch L. Johnson

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I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations. Votes: 0

Robert Cormier

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Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people. Votes: 0

Mike Murdock

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As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. Votes: 0

Jon Gordon

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Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. Votes: 0

Roger von Oech

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Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination. Votes: 0

Mary Kay Ash

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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! Votes: 0

Twiggy

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I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds. Votes: 0

Phil Keoghan

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The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary. Votes: 0

Ted Nicholas

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Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. Votes: 0

Elon Musk

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People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance. Votes: 0

Glenn Beck

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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Edmund Hillary

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Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. Votes: 0

Julian Barbour

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You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. Votes: 0

Dave Winfield

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Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. Votes: 0

Geoff Mulgan

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If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. Votes: 0

Tyler Perry

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Votes: 0

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves. Votes: 0

Elan Lee

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People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. Votes: 0

Junot Diaz

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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Michael Gerber

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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. Votes: 0

Walter Lord

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Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them. Votes: 0

Ian Hacking

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Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Neil Gershenfeld

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Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. Votes: 0

John Hinckley Jr.

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I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me. Votes: 0

Robyn Hitchcock

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Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen. Votes: 0

Alan Keith

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Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. Votes: 0

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation. Votes: 0

Zachary Quinto

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There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given Votes: 0

Brad Brown

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Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. Votes: 0

Wilma Mankiller

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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count. Votes: 0

Studs Terkel

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Votes: 0

Boris Pasternak

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The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. Votes: 0

Phil Gramm

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Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave. Votes: 0

Nadeem Aslam

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Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people Votes: 0

Phillip Adams

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God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Joel Osteen

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In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. Votes: 0

Hermann Goring

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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell

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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Viola Davis

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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Jim Valvano

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Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! Votes: 0

Michael Pollan

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Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people. Votes: 0

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. Votes: 0

David A. Bednar

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Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of. Votes: 0

Hal Elrod

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All of Godâs people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Votes: 0

Eve Arnold

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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else. Votes: 0

Bill Nye

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If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space. Votes: 0

Tom Kelley

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America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society. Votes: 0

Marco Rubio

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People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental. Votes: 0

Ruth Rendell

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I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way. Votes: 0

Alicia Keys

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Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in. Votes: 0

Sebastyne Young

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Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most. Votes: 0

Seth

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There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural. Votes: 0

Kristoffer Polaha

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Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results. Votes: 0

Kevin Eikenberry

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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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...while extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time...is people. Votes: 0

Mark Salsbury

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Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. Votes: 0

Jerry Saltz

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People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms. Votes: 0

John Holdren

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A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary. Votes: 0

Daniel Pearce

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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Studs Terkel

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I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available. Votes: 0

Ivan Reitman

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Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things Votes: 0

Dee Hock

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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. Votes: 0

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that? Votes: 0

Simeon Rice

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An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles. Votes: 0

Marilyn Ferguson

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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living. Votes: 0

Jostein Gaarder

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She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... Votes: 0

Nicholas Sparks

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Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'. Votes: 0

Rick Warren

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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary. Votes: 0

Ashton Kutcher

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It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done. Votes: 0

James M. Kouzes

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One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Jada Pinkett Smith

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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. Votes: 0

Kate Mosse

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Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. Votes: 0

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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. Votes: 0

Daryn Kagan

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It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff. Votes: 0

Greg Bear

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The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life. Votes: 0

Kevin O'Leary

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I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. Votes: 0

Sonia Sotomayor

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Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. Votes: 0

Kathryn Bigelow

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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. Votes: 0

Naguib Mahfouz

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It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. Votes: 0

Hugo Weaving

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Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others. Votes: 0

Paul David Tripp

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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much. Votes: 0

Francesca Annis

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I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate. Votes: 0

Summer Glau

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If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology. Votes: 0

Marshall Sahlins

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Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Donald Trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. He's brought an extraordinary business acumen, he's employed tens of thousands of people in America. Votes: 0

Mike Pence

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For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people. Votes: 0

Mark Boal

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It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history. Votes: 0

Alan Brennert

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Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling. Votes: 0

Aaron Sorkin

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[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress. Votes: 0

Bartlett Sher

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Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar. Votes: 0

Sophia Loren

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Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss. Votes: 0

Hoda Kotb

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Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion. Votes: 0

Nick Minchin

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The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it. Votes: 0

David Chipperfield

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The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. Votes: 0

Claire Denis

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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary. Votes: 0

Eric Gill

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By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time. Votes: 0

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens. Votes: 0

Elfriede Jelinek

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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected. Votes: 0

Margaret Drabble

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Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. Votes: -1

Robin Sharma

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I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination. Votes: -1

Zig Ziglar

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We often don't realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. Votes: -1

Paulo Coelho

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When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. Votes: -1

Oprah Winfrey

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The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves. Votes: -1

Deepak Chopra

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Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music. Votes: -1

Deepak Chopra

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Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen. Votes: -1

Tony Robbins

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