“Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.”
Michel Petrucciani (1962–1999) French jazz pianist
Obituary: Michel Petrucciani, The Independent, 8 January 1999.
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Sherilyn Fenn (1965) American actress
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
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“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (13 October 1989) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107789 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: Imagine a Labour canvasser talking on the doorstep to those East German families when they settle in, on freedom's side of the wall. "You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you." Mr President, the trouble with Labour is that they're just not at home with freedom. Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
Mark Chapman (1955) American assassin
Mark Chapman http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/940986.stm
“The working classes, the ones they refer to in those political programmes as "the ordinary people"”
Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian
An Audience With Billy - 1985