"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."
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"But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker."
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"There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street."
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
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"The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him."
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all."
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"I will not be labelled as average."
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"Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you."
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"Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time."
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"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."
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"I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band."
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"All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average."
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"All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance."
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"For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more."
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"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."
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"Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas"
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"We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."
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"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain."
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"Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average"
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""Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters."
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