Eccentric Quotes - Page 2

• Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

  Nick Lowe

  Cute, Character, Nashville

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• You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

  Douglas Coupland

  Worry, Cogs

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Bisexual, Thinking, Groups

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• A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

  Isabel Toledo

  Men, Giving, Kind

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• I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

  Tom Waits

  Brain, Rooms, Becoming

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• I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

  John Cleese

  Want, Rat Race, Can Do

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• I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

  Emma Forrest

  Lonely, Crazy, Dangerous

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.145, A&C Black

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• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Underdog

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

  Prince Charles

  Rose, Bed, Lotuses

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• If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

  Jacques Derrida

  Insecurity, Strange, Threatening

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• To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

  Steven Brust

  Fashion, Understanding, Sake

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.98, Macmillan

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• I have always idolized eccentric people.

  Brandon Boyd

  People, Idolized

  Brandon Boyd “From the murks of the sultry abyss”

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• When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Winning, Nuts

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• When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

  John Phillips

  Writing, Character, Past

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• I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Family, Afterlife, Born

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Two, Brain

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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  Uma Thurman

  Business, Crazy, Nuts

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dream, Writing, Fate

  Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens (1977). “Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens”, Random House Inc

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• It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

  Nicolas Cage

  Important, Alive, Spirit

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• You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

  Rupert Everett

  World, Fit

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• When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

  George Burns

  Funny, Here I Am, Age

  "Just You and Me Kid", 1979.

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• No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

  Stephen Toulmin

  Science, Doubt, Helping

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• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

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

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• I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

  Carol Vorderman

  Laughing, Incredibles, Mum

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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