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• We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but I hate it when you look at the screen’ is just bizarre. It reflects our own prejudices and comfort zone. It’s nothing but fear of change, of being left out.

  Marc Prensky

  Hate, Book, Kids

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• Don't ever be scared to dream because everything is possible, no matter how bizarre. I was and still am a dreamer and that's what made me become the person I am today

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Matter, Today

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• The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Games, People

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 30 Nov. 1952. The Post article is quoting an article in Quick Magazine from the summer of 1951. According to a letter by William S. Rubin in the New York Times, 5 Jan. 1969, this is "a trumpery originated in Il Libro Nero published by Giovanni Papini in 1951."

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• Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Nice, Mean, Thoughtful

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• I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Reality, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.

  Roland Barthes

  Reality, Hands, Mad

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• There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, People, Outcomes

  "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn.

  Phil Plait

  Ocean, Moon, Lakes

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• It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Medicine, Mind, World

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• Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Risk, Liberty

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feelings, Serendipity, Target

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.390, Baen Books

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• Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

  Werner Herzog

  Facts, Strange, Sometimes

  Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek (2016). “CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana”, p.128, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Winning, Awards, Clothes

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

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• American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

  Miriam

  Travel, Surprise, Similarity

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• Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

  Chuck Jones

  Ordinary, Needs, Esoteric

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

  Steve Earle

  Islam, World, Form

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• The beautiful is always bizarre.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

  Charles Baudelaire (2015). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal”, p.194, Arc Publications

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• If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Dna, Way

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• People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Common Sense, Demand

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• It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

  Glenn Beck

  America, World, Upside Down

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• I always feel that it's weird that anyone else is watching one of my shows on any other TV than my own. It just seems bizarre that somehow it's being broadcast all over the world. I just feel really fortunate to be where I am, and really lucky to have the opportunity to do what I do, and I appreciate every single minute of it.

  Chris Demetral

  Opportunity, Appreciate, Lucky

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

  Mark Haskell Smith

  Wall, Marijuana, Years

  Mark Haskell Smith (2012). “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

  Scarlett Johansson

  Children, Gay, Years

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• We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Thinking, Psychosis, Violent Acts

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