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In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Cinema immortalizes ordinary people. Not just the ones we watch on the silver screens, but also the behind the scene heroes.
I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.
It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.
Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things.
Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Such is the sense of entitlement of Boris Johnson and his establishment class - they believe they can break the law without the consequences meeting ordinary people.
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
For 'Portillo's Hidden History of Britain,' I arranged to meet men and women who were witnesses to history - ordinary people who were caught up in extraordinary events.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.
My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.
Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.
I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.