Common Thing Quotes

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Mistakes, Wish

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

Common, Excellence, Uncommon

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father, Parents, Different

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
Henry J. Heinz

Success, Common, Brings

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
Diane Wakoski

Poetry, Together, Themselves

A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
Jared Leto

Another, Show, Days

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.
Freida Pinto

Crazy, Big, Again

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.
Penelope Spheeris

Children, Away, Around

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