"Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence."
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"The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes."
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"I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it."
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"What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage."
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"The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day."
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"The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure."
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"Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life."
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"In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows."
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"If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?"
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"It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones."
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"The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person."
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"Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete."
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"I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production."
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"Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers."
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"You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions."
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"Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average."
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"For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem."
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"When you're a producer on top of that, just havin' a beat that's hot is not enough. Now you know your sound, 'cause you've been workin' on your sound for so long, and now you're extra picky. You might do a beat that's ill, that the average rapper would pay big money to get on, but you don't wanna do it because you're like, "Ehhh... it's not what I'm looking for, it's not what I'm goin' for." So you're extra picky."
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"The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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