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• The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

  Bill Nye

  People, Shapes, Might

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• I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

  Daniel Handler

  Guitar, Play, Doe

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2005.

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• I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Mistake, Years, Careers

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

  Keith Douglas

  Happiness, Hate, Cat

  Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Liars, Golf, Men

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• Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

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• The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Writing, Everyday

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

  Mitt Romney

  Awkward, Grit, Strange

  "'Let Mitt Be Mitt': But Who Was He?". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

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• In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Taken, Ignorance

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• It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, People, Trying

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• Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

  Claire Holden Rothman

  Regret, Missing, Strange

  Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.32, Oneworld Publications

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• I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

  Stuart Rose

  Friday, Retirement, Monday

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• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

  Gertrude Bacon

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Powerful, Writing

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

  Noah Cicero

  Views, Class, White

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• Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

  Ann Brashares

  Moving, Character, Strange

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• Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

  Herman Melville

  Strange, Habit, Advocating

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.267

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• Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

  Tom Clancy

  Fleeting, Strange, Lost

  Tom Clancy (2001). “The Bear and the Dragon”, p.13, Penguin

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Strange, Music Is

  Letters on the French Stage, 1837.

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• A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

  Thomas Traherne

  Religion, Gardening, World

  The Salutation (published 1903).

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• To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Men, Names

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• Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

  Carlos Fuentes

  Children, Ignorance, Strange

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• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  Carla Gugino

  Fun, Kids, Being Real

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 6, 2001.

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