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Space is going to be commonplace.

~Christa Mcauliffe

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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

~Christian Lous Lange

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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Commonplace Corner First First Time Had Just Life Look Plays Run Time Turned Want

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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

~Christopher Hampton

Topics: About Commonplace Degrading Fail Having Humiliating Husband Rival Something Succeed Think You I Think

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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

~D. B. Weiss

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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Almost America Cinema Coming Commonplace Direction Entirely Escapism Films Gone Had Make Out People Relevance Since Spectacle Superhero Them Vietnam Vietnam War War

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It's no longer permissible to have sexist comments, but growing up in this industry, I spent time in many other organizations where it was just commonplace for men to talk about how a woman looks or give a woman a little bit of a harder time in a meeting and then say, 'I'm just joking - it's because I care about you.'

~Dana Walden

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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

~David Antin

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I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

~David Hanson

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I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

~David Lee Roth

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