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 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 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them.

  Katherine Helmond

  Interesting, Choices, Roles

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Character, Guitar

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• The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

  Idina Menzel

  Outsiders, Yeah, Hard

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• In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

  Benji Durden

  Training, Eccentric, Way

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• The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Children, Effort, Matter

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?

  Shana Alexander

  Sports, Running, Hero

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, World

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• I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

  James St. James

  School, Freak, Shows

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• The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball.

  Eugene Mirman

  School, Disorder, Weirdo

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• I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Independent, Views, Expression

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• In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Interesting, Mutts

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, People, Quality

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

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• I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

  Dave Matthews

  Song, Past, Littles

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