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"I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average."
"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."
"The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life."
"Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date."
"What I seek is the highest possible batting average."
"I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy."
"The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!"
"The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it."
"And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC"
"It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth."
"All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best."
"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."
"For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts."
"I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average."
"I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me."
"I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for."
"Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in."
"the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension."
"The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion"
"A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world."
