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Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.
It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.
It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
If you're different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that's so dope.
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.
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.
My parents were an ordinary East End family and very supportive - they would have supported me no matter what I wanted to do.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.
I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
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.
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
I don't do anything out of the ordinary. I try to eat healthy and exercise as much as I can, even if it's just a 20-minute run.
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.