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• Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Want

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• So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

  Molly Ivins

  Laughter, Fun, Freedom

  "The Fun’s in the Fight". www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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• I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

  Larry Hagman

  World, Hats, Disguise

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  Bear Grylls

  Rude, Rays, Brilliant

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

  Al Gore

  Priorities, Secret, Surveillance

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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• Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  People, Simplicity, Want

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• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  Umberto Eco

  Song, Kings, Queens

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

  Patty Duke

  Funny Things, Manic, Jokes

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.133, Bantam

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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, World, Scandal

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• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Aggravation, Challenges, Congress

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• Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

  Will Self

  Thinking, Names, Ideas

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• I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

  Lynn Austin

  Love, Spring, Flower

  Lynn Austin (2001). “Hidden Places: A Novel”, p.210, Bethany House

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• Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

  Roald Dahl

  Crazy, Half, Want

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Clothes, Bed

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• A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Sexy, Nice

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• The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• ...But also because I find I really do…" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you." "Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had(...)"Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hate, Long, Feelings

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.932, Penguin

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• To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Drug, Wish, Demand

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  John Travolta

  Truth, Reality, Knows

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• I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

  Kevin Spacey

  Winning, Scripts, Brad

  Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Matter, Violence, Causes

  "Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

  Richard Simmons

  Crazy, Silly, Men

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• James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

  Gene Simmons

  Rocks, People, Attention

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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Sleep, Safe, Mechanic

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