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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

~Charles Francis Richter

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People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Actively Benefit Extraordinary Father Field Interest Jason John Like Man Met Minimalism Music Orbit People Pierce Shared Showing Twin Who Wider William Worked Young

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The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Amazing Centre Community Disability Distinct Extraordinary Festival First First Time Greeting London Major Moment No Question People Perspective Place Question Shift Taking Time Unlimited Up Waking Waking Up World

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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Bottom Centre Count Extraordinary Find Numbers Pick Pine Proportions Recurring Running Scales Sides Spiral Top Truth Up Will You

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I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Am Conversations Destiny Extraordinary Grateful Guide Helped Nation Played Role Small I Am

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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: Afterwards Conversation Direction Dying Extraordinary Extraordinary Things Fill Getting Going Just Matter Most People Remember Right Right Direction Said Secrets Silence Sometimes Tell Things Will Wonder You

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A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordinary because of the people who have loved me. I say twilight because of what people say to me in the supermarket.

~Charles Nelson Reilly

Topics: Because Extraordinary Head Life Loved Me People People Say Say Supermarket Tells Twilight Voice Who

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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

~Charlton Heston

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I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: Always Aware Been Both Extraordinarily Extraordinary First How Important Life Live Me Much My Life Never Normal Now Parents Very Want World Would Younger

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I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.

~Cheryl Mills

Topics: Actually Extraordinary House Life Might Sound Think Unusual White White House Working

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