Bizarre Quotes - Page 3

• I've always run by the hierarchy of "If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something."

  Jon Stewart

  Running, Fun, Interesting

  Interview with Michael Rubiner, Rolling Stone, January 26, 1995.

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• Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Drinking, Men, Blood

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, America, Actors

  "Robert Pattinson: 'Girls scream at me all round the world. Once, I was so nervous, I started crying...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2009.

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• Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

  Bridget Fonda

  Immature, Twenties, Aging

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• My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Needs, Lifestyle, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

  Lenny Henry

  Men, White, Guy

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• I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Religious, Thinking, Pluralism Is

  "Witches in Queensland?". "The Religion Report" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. December 13, 2000.

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• I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

  Sara Gruen

  Hate, Writing, Pages

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Want, Made, Process

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

  Kirstie Alley

  Thinking, People, Sound

  "Kirstie Alley Defends Tom Cruise & Scientology". www.etonline.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

  Karen Gillan

  Coins, Faces

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• Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that.

  Louise Wilson

  Thinking, Rooms, Bikinis

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• I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

  Graeme Murphy

  White, People, Giving

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• People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

  John Hodgman

  Running, People, Secret

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.

  Twiggy

  Thinking, Way, Over It

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• A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Texture, Tone

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• In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

  Amanda Beard

  Baby, Grandma, Swimming

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• The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

  Clint Black

  Hate, Years, People

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• I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

  Russell Brand

  Writing, Thinking, Meaningless Things

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• Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

  Stockard Channing

  Giving, Acting, Passionate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  Vince Cable

  Ideas, Easy, Selling

  "Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

  Richard Foreman

  Real, World, Enchanted

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• It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

  Alex Grey

  School, Museums, Boston

  "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.

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