#ordinary people

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. ↗

— Socrates

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Benazir Bhutto

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

— Viola Davis

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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

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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Walter Lord

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