Strange Quotes - Page 13

• There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

  Israel Horovitz

  Real, Self, Punishment

  Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Stranger, Provinces

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I'm definitely really shy on some level. But on another level, I'm all entertainer. It's a strange dichotomy, but it's true.

  Leigh Bingham Nash

  Shy, Levels, Entertainers

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Mom, Hate, War

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

  Whitley Strieber

  Fall, Night, Voice

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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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• The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Ideas, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Men, Order

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• Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Warrior, Hunting

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

  Paul Dano

  Jobs, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Opposites, People, Profound

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Gambling, Feel Good

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• "Do you believe in intuition?"
  "No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will."
  People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.
  Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Rights, Vigor

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• I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

  Al Yankovic

  Guitar, Kind, Parody

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was kind of like a documentary, which was different for me. The way everything was filmed was very casual.

  Yasmin Paige

  Different, Way, Documentaries

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

  Brendan Benson

  Mean, Numbers, People

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Growing Up, Film And Television, Grows

  Source: collider.com

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• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Speech, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cancer, Years, Mirrors

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• So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Years, Waiting, Pieces

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Atheist, Blame, Nazi

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• Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

  Andy Warhol

  Wish, Way, Action

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