Quotes with common

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  • Barbara Park Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Carl Andre Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bobby Flay Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • William F. Buckley Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
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  • Boris Pasternak Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Booker T. Washington Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Betty Buckley Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carter Heyward For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
    Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk, Volume 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), p. 311
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Bill Cosby George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • John Berger Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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