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“I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.”

People Thinking Self Shows Used Amount Normal Average Show Business Neurotic Loathing Normal Life Self Loathing Hubris Self Deprecation

Author:Jon Stewart

“The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.”

“We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.”

Home Running Judging Politician Balls Average Strikes Score Home Run Batting Cumulative

Author:Jesse Jackson

“People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?”

People Guy Average Height Tall Foxes Skinny Pizza Mystic Blonde

Author:Julia Roberts

“Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.”

People Want Helping Care Cutting Plans Mines Taxes Clinton Democrat Average Health Care Code Tax Cuts

Author:Dick Gephardt

“The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.”

Night Late Average African American Viewers Hispanic Late Night

Author:George Lopez

“I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.”

People Thinking Needs Order Serious Evidence Average Managers Performing Getting High

Author:Thomas Piketty

“I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.”

Two Action Film Three Stuff Cutting Written Average Producers

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.”

Ifs Wells Doe Play Use Artist Realizing Lines Careers Five Army Twenties Salvation Aging Jazz Average Fifty Twenty Five Salvation Army

Author:Oscar Peterson

“I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.”

Feels I Can Beautiful Strong Interest Healthy Harmony Average Unconscious Realistic Fascinated Slice Of Life

Author:Leni Riefenstahl

“Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.”

Want Real Stories Guy Walks Stage Jokes Average Real Life Comedian Performing Life Story Performing On Stage

Author:Bruce Bruce

“Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.”

Way Stills Stuff Loses Average Crap

Author:Louis C. K.

“The average permanent lasts about four months.”

Lasts Four Months Average Permanent

Author:Dana Gould

“I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.”

Want Believe Persons Faces I Believe Average Maps Average Person

Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

“I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.”

People Wanted Beautiful Situation Building Ordinary Everyday Photograph Average Landscape Portraits Ordinary People Beautiful People Distressing Everyman Beautiful Landscapes

Author:Ray Metzker

“I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image... And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.”

Knows Doe Done Half Careers Know How Century Stupid Design Sells Average Architecture Get Better Architect It Gets Better Half A Century

Author:Julius Shulman

“Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.”

Men Shows Desire Ability Extraordinary Average Winner Show Me

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.”

Moving Process Design Average Improving Great Design Good To Great

Author:Fred Brooks

“Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.”

Persons Lasts Waste Average Partners Bridges Politeness Average Person

Author:Alfred Sheinwold

“The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.”

Years Ability College Ten Draws Percent Complexes Average Complicated Graduates Literacy Inference College Graduates Lengthy

Author:Charles Colson

“I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.”

People Thinking Littles Actors Roles Average Size Height Frustrating Dwarfs

Author:Verne Troyer

“There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.”

Believe Humans Human Beings Incredibles Average Grotesque

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.”

Years Fall Next Challenges Wealth Numbers Events Climate Climate Change Average Storm Violent Weather Als Decline Flood Hurricanes Gore Annuals Tornadoes

Author:Donald J. Boudreaux

“The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.”

Years Two Growth Economic Century Losing Impact Climate Climate Change Average Income Welfare Two Years Cents Economic Growth

Author:Richard Tol

“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.”

“I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.”

Thinking Strong Cases Economic Average Very Strong Imaginary Dependence Mexican

Author:Bocafloja

“At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.”

Ends Hell Middle Notes Average The End Of The Day Differentiate Being Played Punters

Author:Jeff Beck

“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.”

Humans Said Found Stuff Results Middle Century Changed Standards Average Oil Fuel Gas Coal Fossils Human History Fossil Fuel Seductive Standards Of Living Keynes

Author:Bill McKibben

“Infertility costs an average of about $16-20,000 per procedure, and you don't always get pregnant the first time. I had to go through it seven times. And adoption and surrogacy are not covered through insurance companies.”

Firsts Company Cost First Time Seven Average Covered Pregnant Adoption Procedures Insurance Companies Infertility Surrogacy

Author:Cindy Margolis

“Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.”

Body Sex Cities Fantasy Average Fulfillment Candy Wardrobe Sex And The City

Author:Tina Fey

“[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.”

Persons Facts Risk Type Higher Tests Average Testing Labs Diabetes Average Person Type 2 Diabetes

Author:Francis Collins

“I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.”

Thinking Writing Average Rapper Outspoken

Author:Kool Keith

“I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.”

Ifs Writing Records Average Trash

Author:Tommy Lee

“I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.”

Real Average Linebackers

Author:Junior Seau

“The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.”

Bits Differences Average Tiny Massive Performers Mediocre Top Performers

Author:Brian Tracy

“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?”

“What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.”

World War Ends Average War Of The Worlds Regimes Mediocre Petty End Of The World Bourgeois Second World War

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.”

Purpose Ignorance Average Bugs Cosmetics Supplements

Author:Montgomery Clift

“By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Age School Millions Four Heard High School Average Four Years Receiving Assistance Disadvantages Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Sal Albanese

“The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.”

Children Made Eye Beautiful Millions Normal Ordinary Adults Average Staring Indispensable

Author:Peter Shaffer

“When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.”

Has Beens Remember Left Thousand Weapons Average Active Nuclear Bombs Yield Reserves Fifteen Treaties Nuclear War Hiroshima

Author:Joseph Rotblat

“I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.”

Used Waiting Higher Balls Harder Mad Average Used To Be More Money

Author:George Brett

“Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.”

Heart Support Issues Truth Is Gay Demand Blue Democrat Workers Dear Average Abortion Illegal Gay Marriage Taxpayers Collars Blue Collar Submerged Sniffing Blue Collar Workers Anwr

Author:Ann Coulter

“I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.”

Giving Seems Teaching Offers Capable Average Hungry Impression Dumb Willingness Appetite Zeal Pupils Fling Frenzy Willingness To Learn

Author:Salvador Dali

“When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.”

Thinking Persons Presses Average Lawyer Jail No Money Average Person

Author:Josh Brolin

“The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.”

Imagination Differences Average Zeal

Book:The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

Source: The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

“The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.”

People Persons Has Beens Desire Average Artificial Average Person

Book:The Ideal Made Real: Or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners

Source: The Ideal Made Real: Or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners

“The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.”

Long Running Advantage Performances Bases Fundamentals Average Long Runs Competitive Advantage Above Average

Author:Warren Buffett

“The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.”

Littles Left Loss Produce Return Periods Rate Average Profit Decent Workout Gross Occasional Parking Meter Annuals Allowance Predictability Time Left Parking Meters

Author:Warren Buffett

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