#ordinary

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary. ↗

— Patrick Roy

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Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done. ↗

— Joe Shuster

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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. ↗

— John Guare

#bodies #come #controlled #emotional #extraordinary

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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