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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

~Adam Brody

Topics: Because Been Big Big Deal Commonplace Cool Deal Doing Just Just Because Kind Kissing More Shows Stuff Teen Way Years Ryan

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Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About American Collect Commonplace Could Easily Europeans Failures Federal Feel Governments Live Lives Local More Politicians Positively Provide Return Services State Taxes Tend Than Various Which Whom Without

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Chains Cling Commonplace Desperately Escape Existence Imagine Our Selfish Want

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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Bizarre Commonplace Crimes Difficult Face Holmes Identify Just Less More Most Mysterious Proves Puzzling Really Rule Said Thing Which Your

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I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

~Ben Silbermann

Topics: About Around Become Cab Commonplace Food Long Long Time Look Neighborhood Now Ordering Paying People Phone Read Really Really Long Time See Starting Stuff Then Time I See

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The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand.

~Bill Buford

Topics: About Best Best Way Commonplace Cooking Firsthand Go Italian Italy Learn Learned Needs Practice See Simple Simplicity Very Way

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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Become Commonplace Earth Easiest Easiest Thing Editing Evolved Films Get Music Now Oh Out Processing Put Rid Sentence Thing Things Too Word

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Against Anything Assert Be Different Commonplace Creatures Daring Different Imaginative Impractical Integrity Ordinary Purpose Slaves Vision Will

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

~Charles Mingus

Topics: Commonplace Complicated Creativity Making Simple

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Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

~Charles Scribner, Jr.

Topics: Beyond Commonplace Cultivated Essential Everyday Everyday Life Experiences Intellect Language Life Process Reading Soul Which

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