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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

When I was creating my Luxhair Now wig line, I was listening to what my fans were saying online because I wanted to make something that the average woman could wear to work.

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd also recommend a program such as SpyCop to periodically check for any spyware on your system.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

The post-drought rebuilding will hold back a bit of the growth and see agriculture still being a negative for 2005-06, but set us up for a very good 2006-07 - assuming average seasonal conditions,

We are seeing a 'soft landing' rather than a 'hard landing' in consumer spending for a couple of reasons. First, although job growth is slowing, wages are still rising, with average hourly earnings up 0.4% in October. Second, despite recent stock market turmoil, consumer spirits are holding up reasonably well.

We are probably 20 to 30 percent cheaper than the average view lot around the county. I'm sure that over the next six months there could be some price raising. Any lot that is bought right now, my guess would be that they'll gain 20 to 30 percent over the next one to three years.

We are a very average team when we try to go by ourselves -- when we move the puck; we're awesome. I don't know what happened, if they see the big crowd and decide they're going to go Hollywood on us.

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

There are customers that will love it. My biggest concern is: Can we teach the average cook how to use it?

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

There are some fears now in the natural-gas market of a return to colder than average weather for the next few weeks.

Where the average debt levels are really increasing are for children of more-affluent families. Children of affluent families are now almost as likely to borrow as children of less-affluent families.

Where that integration exists is where the poker market is going -- the mix of celebrity and average Joes.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

We remain confident in our ability to consistently achieve annual double-digit earnings per share growth over the long-term, with a 12 percent average annualized target through 2004,

We're spending an average of $45. We try to stay under $5 a person per meal. Everyone puts in $5 in the morning. If we're able to cook for less, we'll give some money back.

What this contest proves to me is that average people can solve problems better than our corporate and political leaders.

What he's been doing lately, this is what I was expecting all year. He's getting chances. He's more than average defensively. By getting chances, he's going to get his goals. He's there.

We believe year-end redemptions drove a 10% decline in average assets under management to $3 billion.

We're going to hold the average to as close to $1 million as we can.

We're going to have an intimidating lineup. I think six or seven runs a game is going to be the average for our offense.

World demand in the second half will average 3 million barrels a day more than in the second quarter.

With the leading economic indicators posting three consecutive sharp increases, the U.S. economy does not seem to be ready to settle down much from the fast pace of growth it experienced in 1998. Over the past six months, the index has increased 1.2 percent, which is far above its historical average and the prospects for growth in income and employment are very bright.

With the introduction of these new Windows Marketplace Feeds, average users will find it easy to stay up-to-date with Windows. Better yet, there's no middle man to go through; all the hardware and software update information comes directly from Microsoft. That's a true win-win situation.

We feel as though we have five superstars. If we want one guy to go out there and average 30, we can do that. But we know what we want at the end, a championship, and we know one guy can't guard five guys.

We feel that not only do we have above average teachers in Libby, but outstanding dedicated professionals who certainly deserve the same pay.

We're facing a demographic bubble. The divorce revolution, the big increase, started in the late 1960s. The average person who gets divorced is in their 30s. We're coming up to a generation who in large numbers are going to enter late adulthood.

We're getting e-mails left and right. We probably average 20 to 30 begging e-mails a day.

It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.

With the previous system, a meter reader could check an average of 1,000 meters a day. Under the new system, a meter reader can read up to 4,000 meters a day.

With the national average petrol price at a record high, the Reserve Bank will not touch interest rates.

Vendors experienced significant growth in the color page printer market due to aggressive pricing, as the average selling price of these devices declined 21 percent in 2005. Monochrome page printer shipments remain strong due to the growth in small and midsize business (SMB) and remote workers that need inexpensive printers.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.