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• Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

  Louise Jameson

  Hands, Holding On, Palms

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• It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

  William Jackson

  Home, Character, Simple

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• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hurt, Artist, People

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• The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Courage, Vigor, Genius

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

  Laurence Sterne

  Peace, Kings, Men

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 1, ch. 7

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• In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

  John Stuart Mill

  Order, Break Through, People

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Mind, Littles

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• Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Mouths, Earth

  "A Prairie Home Companion". Radio show, December 13, 1997.

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• Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Artist, Careers, Creative

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• Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Purple, Waiting

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• Normality is the new eccentric.

  Criss Jami

  Normality

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami

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• Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

  Donna Tartt

  Diversity, Healthy, Growing

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Bereavement, Might, Affliction

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

  Daphne Guinness

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

  Bruce Robinson

  Insane

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  Paloma Faith

  People, Interesting, Stories

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• It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Letting Go, Crazy, Eye

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• The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Intelligent, Support

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• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Mad, Passionate

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• I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

  Dodie Smith

  People, Might, England

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being...we are here to become more and more ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Self, Different, Mosaics

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• I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Attitude, Men, Odd Man

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mom, Children, Husband

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

  Susan Straight

  Insane, Riding, Loser

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• We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Law, Might

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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