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The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.
I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
On average, an e-commerce client who evolves into a premier enterprise client increases their annual spend by 10 times in that first year.
The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.
Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the state was a center for home foreclosures.
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.
Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.
People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.
Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.
Bowls have become network-owned, commercial enterprises, in some cases, pitting average teams in money-losing bowls for the benefit of a few.
Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.
I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.
The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.