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People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.
On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.
Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.
I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.
I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.
Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].
The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.
Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
I find the world extremely upsetting - not in the way an average person does but more in the way a crazy person might.
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
The guy that can be the trimmest for four laps and keep a good average speed is the guy that's going to be on the pole.
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.
The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.