#ordinary people

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#always #bobby #extraordinary #focus #hiring

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#been #equally #events #everywhere #extraordinary

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#absolutely #activities #alternative #candle #clear

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#expectations #milestones #opportunity #ordinary #ordinary people

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#conviction #democracy #extraordinary #ordinary #ordinary people

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#earlier #form #internal #look #models

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#being #being ignored #blogs #grassroots #had

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #confidence #did #extraordinary #forward

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. ↗

— Melita Norwood

#cost #could #defeat #did #education

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#around #bringing #challenges #change #community