Strange Quotes - Page 12

• My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

  Garth Greenwell

  Months, Firsts, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.

  Ryan Jarman

  Years, Band, Kind

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• There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

  Patricia Arquette

  Self, Who I Am, Littles

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

  Patricia Arquette

  Years, Want, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.

  Mark Danner

  Dragons, Democracy, Around The World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was shooting all this time. And there was only one guy who helped to pull him. And I had to think whether I was going to keep shooting or help the guy. And so I kept shooting and then they put him in this little clinic, and I photographed through the window while they had to amputate his leg. And I felt very strange because I didn't - I felt I could have helped, but I didn't help. But then I also felt elated that I was getting a shot that would be important to the film.

  Haskell Wexler

  Thinking, Guy, Important

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Thinking, Fans, Come Up

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.

  Alex Hirsch

  Believe, Fall, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Country, Korea

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

  Hal Duncan

  Jeter, Fiction, Yeats

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• I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, Creating, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

  Edgar Wright

  Looks, London, Kind

  "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Ideas, Roots, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

  Edward Hirsch

  Teacher, School, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

  Susanne Wuest

  Beautiful, Believe, Zoom

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing."

  Scott Foley

  Couple, Ideas, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

  Confucius

  Teaching, Dangerous, Oneself

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Winter of Our Discontent". Book by John Steinbeck. Part One, Chapter III, 1961.

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

  Dana Gould

  Tattoo, Race, Years

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• Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

  Jim Cummings

  Kind, Spokes, Combination

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• Even then, I didn't quite know what to make of it [captain Kirk death]. I was mystified by why I was doing it, why I was so driven to do it, and why it was affecting me like it was. I still don't know what it means. It's a strange singular experience. I don't even know anyone to talk to about it because I don't know anyone who's had that experience.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Mean, Captain Kirk, Captains

  Source: collider.com

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• A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Secret

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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