Bizarre Quotes - Page 17

• Every day is bizarre.

  Mia Kirshner

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• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  Sam Neill

  Sea, Acting, Actors

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• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  Oren Peli

  Answers, Mysterious, Fascinating

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• I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

  Phil Keoghan

  Drinking, Blood, Stories

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational

  Steve Allen

  Religious, Philosophy, Commitment

  Steve Allen (1996). “But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind”

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• Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Venice, Atmosphere

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Black Gondolier: And Other Stories”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• It's bizarre to me that you can have political commentators, sports commentators, weather commentators, but with medicine, people go, "You can't do that."

  Drew Pinsky

  Sports, Weather, Medicine

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

  Jillian Michaels

  Sexy, People, Magic

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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• The reality is that most of the time, the more bizarre the trend, the more bogus the results.

  Jillian Michaels

  Reality, Trends, Results

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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• 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

  Anna Kendrick

  Movie, Thinking, Validation

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• Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Reality, Years, Names

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• When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Thinking, People, Tennessee

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Age, Stones

  "The Great Matrix of Being" by William Grassie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• It's funny how everyone has a bizarre relationship with Google. The knowledge is there, but no one knows how to use it right.

  Jonathan Gold

  Google, Use, Know How

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Real, Awards, Odds

  "Cannes 2012: Rust and Bone – review". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I do find it bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

  Mandy Moore

  People

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• The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

  Denis Diderot

  Giving, Inspire, Excellent

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• Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It's a stupid name, Kylie, I just don't get it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Stupid, Names, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

  Henri Poincare

  Purpose, Half, Littles

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• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

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• I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.

  Matthew Rhys

  Acting, Sound, Giants

  "‘The Americans’ star Matthew Rhys: Philip would defect ‘in a heartbeat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Clothes, Black, Charity

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

  Bill Gates

  School, Kids, Different

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• I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre.

  Robert Heinecken

  School, Cutting, Thinking

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