#average

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#build #chief #chief executive #class #enough

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #children #good-looking #lake #men

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#been #before #ever #higher #history

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. ↗

— Greg Walden

#billion #costs #decrease #electricity #estimated

The average is that which no person quite ever is. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#ever #person #quite #which

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#american consumer #average #average american #becomes #cafta

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#batting #because #brilliant #discovered #formula

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#average #because #buff #chan #character