Oddballs Quotes

• Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Innovation, Excellence

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• Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

  Donald Sutherland

  Beautiful, Hopeful, Negative

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• At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

  John Astin

  Ravens, People, Admiration

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

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• I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

  J. Carter Brown

  Art, Spirit, Kindred

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• I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

  Peter Jackson

  Littles, Bullied, Bits

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• I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Rough Edges, Misfits

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

  Jane Espenson

  Competition, Watches, Stuff

  Ain't It Cool News interview, July 17, 2003.

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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Struggle, True Identity

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sleep, Clothes, Naked

  Ethan Hawke (2002). “Ash Wednesday: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I'd much rather be the oddball out than kind of create something of myself that I'm not proud of.

  Selena Gomez

  Proud, Kind

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• As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Thinking, Oddities

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• I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.

  Dave Gahan

  Thinking, Different, Littles

  Interview with Chloë Sevigny, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I have an oddball sense of humor. So when there was an episode at a comic book convention-of course they end up having Lois dress up all sexy and stuff-but really what I would dress up like is a Stormtrooper. That's what I'd do, because it's hilarious, and who doesn't want to be that at some point, right? So then they made something out of that.

  Erica Durance

  Sexy, Book, Dresses

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• In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

  Ry Cooder

  Music, Taken, Guitar

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• Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, World, Outsiders

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• I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

  Cee Lo Green

  Whole Life, Whole

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.

  Donna Tartt

  People, Childhood, World

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

  Paul Zindel

  Being Yourself, Cutting, Hair

  Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”

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• Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now?  Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you?  To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Wall, Men

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

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• I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

  Steve Roper

  Climbing, Giants, Misfits

  Steve Roper (2013). “Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber”, p.12, The Mountaineers Books

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• My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).

  Porochista Khakpour

  Country, School, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Tables, Kingdoms, Rooms

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.

  Charles Saatchi

  Memories, Eye, House

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “Babble”, p.152

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• There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's true. He lived at the turn of the century, in the 1800s.

  Lance Henriksen

  Dream, Character, Names

  Source: collider.com

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