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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Billy Wilder

Tags: Something Absolutely Track

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

Lily Tomlin

Tags: About World Being

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Chet Atkins

Tags: Fear Out Being

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

Tags: Work Best Men

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

Joseph Heller

Tags: People Them Some

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

Andy Richter

Tags: Been Them Feel

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Scott Caan

Tags: Good Me His

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

Patti Smith

Tags: Work Great Than

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Helen Mirren

Tags: Very Some Actor

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags: Education Always Will

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen, Sr.

Tags: Men People Because

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tags: People Our Them

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.

Scott Adams

Tags: Up Never Myself

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

Tags: Like Just Something

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Tags: Great First Come

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

Tags: Work Women Men

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

Tags: Good Great You

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

Martin Gore

Tags: Technology People Get

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Marilyn Hacker

Tags: Good Like Them

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

Tags: Great Faith People

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

Tags: Just Being He

I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

Lake Bell

Tags: Just Because Up

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