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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
I am an ordinary man.
I am just an ordinary man.
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
Brian and I have ups and downs like every marriage does. Although he's a legend, he's still, inside, an ordinary man, and I have got to remember that once we get inside the door, it's just us two.
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
It's really strange, but I find a connect with Shivaji Raje through Rajinikanth. Rajini sir is born a Marathi, he's a superstar in Tamil film industry and a national icon too. He started his life as an ordinary man and reached the pinnacle. This is how Shivaji Raje's life also traversed from common to extraordinary.
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century.
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
