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• I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

  Jim Butcher

  Ideas, Missing, Healthy

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• Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

  Arthur Golden

  Life Is Like, Sometimes, Casual

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• It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

  Diane Keaton

  Past, Way, Hard

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Change, God, Knowledge

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• Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

  Daniel Handler

  I Hate You, Humor, Fate

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, 2003.

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• I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Weekend, Years

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• I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Change, Moving, Tired

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• [Jim Belushi] and I have a great thing going, and a really weird, offbeat story. [Living In Peril] is the type of movie that I don't even know if it would be made today. Just a very odd film. But a very fun movie.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Stories, Today

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?

  Bart Millard

  Song, Real, Writing

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• The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more than music. I did stuff on acoustic guitar when I was traveling, filed it away and made notes, without it being musical notation. Just taped the odd thing, did a sketch, stuck it on a cassette. I thought at some point, I'll go back to it. Some of it I did use in '84-'85 when I started working in the Free Theatre in Christchurch. So it might seem like I had given up after the Pin Group, but I just went into a different avenue.

  Roy Montgomery

  Guitar, Musical, Theatre

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• It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

  Phil Keaggy

  Thinking, Awards, Once Upon A Time

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• My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

  Squarepusher

  Father, House, Kitchen

  Source: thequietus.com

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• All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

  Method Man

  Jobs, Boys, Embarrassing

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• Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Character, Looks, Scripts

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• I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Dad, Issues, Dying

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

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• Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

  Stephen Fry

  Philosophy, Everyday, Odd Things

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Helping, Strange

  "Human gullibility beyond belief, - the "paranormal" in the media". The Sunday Times, August 25, 1996.

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• The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Dwelling, Insanity

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.5, New World Library

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• I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.

  Simon Bird

  Dad, Crazy, Thinking

  "Simon Bird and Robert Popper Interview FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2011.

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• The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Heaven, Kind, Neighborhood

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• What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Mind, Juxtaposition, Attention

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. And the wedding was a radiant event and I enjoyed it. I was afraid I'd cry. I'm given to crying at odd times, and I was very much afraid of the emotionalism of that moment, but I didn't even come close to crying.

  Rod Serling

  Daughter, Events, Cry

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• Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

  Moby

  Careers, People, Musician

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately, and have permission to transgress all her "life" boundaries.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Communication, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.

  William Finnegan

  War, News, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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