#mediocre

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ↗

— Joseph Heller

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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

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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

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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning. ↗

— Renee Vivien

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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. ↗

— Orson Welles

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. ↗

— Ira Glass

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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. ↗

— Douglass North

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You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

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No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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