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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: Always Amount Being Believe Celebrity Common Common Man Consume Ever Every Fame Goes Human Human Being Man Money My Soul Own Remain Right Soul Stardom Will I Believe

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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

~Ang Lee

Topics: Call Common Common Man Critics Critique Different Discipline Just Kind Man Overall Really Reviewers Taste Term Them Thing View Watch Would Write You

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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

~Angus Wilson

Topics: Common Common Man Concern Except He Man Should

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People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

~Arlo Guthrie

Topics: About Belly Common Common Man Just Lead Make Man Order People Songs Talking Uncommon Were Woody

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

~Confucius

Topics: Always Comfort Common Common Man Man Superior Superior Man Thinks Virtue

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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

~Ernest Bevin

Topics: Against Been Before Calmly Common Common Man Could Facts Folk Great Had Man Never Ordinary Protection Put Think War Which I Think

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I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

~Eugene Levy

Topics: Am Around Bring Characters Common Common Man Family Get Lifestyle Love Man Play Polite Pushed Rules Sometimes Try I Am I Love

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You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Beginning Common Common Man Country Finished Generals Glorious Hear Just Man Memoir Politicians Rather Rendered Service Tale Than Traditional War Who Woman You

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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

~George Santayana

Topics: Any Cannot Cast Character Common Common Man Gives He Her Him Live Man May Old Philosophy Pleasure Strangers Wife Without

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