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“One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.”

Persons Talking Judging Goes On Ordinary Deeper Motive Ordinary Person

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States government so citizens will always have someplace to go where they can be attacked by bears. And we're not talking about ordinary civilian bears, either: We're talking about federal bears, which can behave however they want to because they are protected by the same union as postal clerks.”

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.”

People Knows Wells Talking Ordinary

Book:Management in Small Doses

Source: Management in Small Doses

“I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still when I do an interview. These characters are just extreme versions of ordinary human self-switching.”

Humans Stills Self Character Talking Ordinary Daughter Extremes Versions Interviews My Daughter Irs Switching

Author:Dana Spiotta

“We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.”

People Talking Building Ordinary Shops Owners Village Ordinary People Housing

Author:Gary Hustwit

“It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.”

World Feelings Seems Film Simple Talking Mystery Elements Ordinary Thirds Universal Irrational Ordinary World

Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic

“I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.”

People Way Hands Talking Opinion Study Magic Ordinary Strategy

Author:Alex Jones

“I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.”

Hate Culture Stuff Talking Ordinary I Hate Popular Culture

Author:Edward Snowden

“The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.”

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”

Men Has Beens Feelings Past Lying Sound Talking Listening Bed Normal Summer Clothes Ordinary Get Up Peaceful Evening Making Love Compulsion Summer Evening

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)”

“I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.”

Knows Two Dream Beautiful Talking Saws Tree Singing Ordinary Hundred Chickens Climbing Warmth Perpetual Not Talking Bulbs Miranda Fours Perpetual Motion Bryce Loski

Author:Wendelin Van Draanen