Odd Quotes - Page 33

• I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Construction

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• It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

  Celia Green

  People, Facts, Should

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Character, Civilization, People

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.319, London, R. Bentley

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• All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Thinking, Simple, Mind

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Cowboy, Female, Sailor

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.110, Penguin

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• It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.

  Mary Lamb

  Talking, Remembrance, Advice

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1905). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1834”

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• [On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, United States, Looks

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• I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

  Shania Twain

  Thinking, Eggs, Healthy

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• Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Fashion, Cutting, Clothes

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• For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Opposites, Interesting

  "Official Art and the Modern Painter". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1959.

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• For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.

  Laura Furman

  Book, Littles, Void

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• It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Men, Chivalry, Protect

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• When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."

  Eddie Izzard

  Strong, Sex, Sorry

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 13, 1999.

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• We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.

  John Lennon

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Tired, Names

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• I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Self, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Clothes, Wool, Looks

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

  Esther Meynell

  Silly, Animal, Sheep

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

  Esther Meynell

  Memories, Memorable, Wind

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.

  Anne Fontaine

  Numbers, Political, Desire

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Challenges, Acting, Way

  "Turning 50? It's better than the alternative" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Boss, Negative

  "Harry Shearer: The Voices in My Head". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

  Jamie Lynn Sigler

  Tanks, Phases, Stuff

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• I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

  Maud Adams

  People, Hometown, Persons

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• I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

  Juliet Landau

  Fun, Play, Parent

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

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