Exotic Quotes

• I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Ocean, Dumb

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• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  Campbell Scott

  Crazy, Years, Interesting

  "Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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• People always like things that seem exotic.

  Jane Birkin

  People, Seems

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• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch.

  Howie Dorough

  Girl, Bird, Looks

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• Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

  Paul Theroux

  Mind, States, Existence

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• An exotic and irrational entertainment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humorous, Opera

  Lives of the English Poets "Hughes" (1779 - 1781)

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• The only real failure is the failure to try.

  Judi Dench

  Real, Trying

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• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

  Anna Kournikova

  Luxury, People, Gourmet

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• The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Grows

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Flower, Tree

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• Single by choice, just not my choice.

  Celia Imrie

  Dating, Choices

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• Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

  Thurston Moore

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Desire, Interest, Cult

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

  Loni Anderson

  Musical, Acting, Brunette

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• I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Garden, Plant, Flora

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• People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.

  Sung-Hi Lee

  Views, People, Asian

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

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• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  Dana Carvey

  People, Laughing, Sound

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• The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Airports, Order, Years

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• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

  Peter Agre

  Winter, Careers, Long

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• I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Home, Elderly

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• I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

  Carla Bley

  America, Car, Taste

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• Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Life, Weed, Flower

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

  Dominic Chianese

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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