Bizarre Quotes - Page 17

• How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

  Jack Kornfield

  Animal, World, Body

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• And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Looks, Feels

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.43, Macmillan

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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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• A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Years

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

  Mark Morford

  Coffee, Catholic, Church

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons" by Mark Morford, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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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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• Every day is bizarre.

  Mia Kirshner

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• Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Crazy, Play, People

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• But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

  Nick Hornby

  Powerful, Creating, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A friend of mine's sister was on a TV show here in Toronto, a popular show. I don't know I guess it must be some Canadian come line. Well Mr. Dressup a friend's sister was on Mr. Dressup and I just never understood - knew that I could know someone in the flesh that was on the TV. It was just a bizarre thing for me. I grew up drinking Coca Cola, singing to Michael Jackson and the '80s a pretty stand by me life.

  Craig Olejnik

  Drinking, Singing, Coca Cola

  "Craig Olejnik and Christina Jennings Talk The Listener". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 2, 2009.

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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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