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It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .
This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.
He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.
Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.
I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.
An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.
You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.
You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.
I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.