Strange Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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• For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Target, Bullets, Red

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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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• Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.

  Margo Kaufman

  Cities, People, Los Angeles

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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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• I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.

  Amy Seimetz

  Dark, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Way, Ill

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• It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.

  Rupert Grint

  Names, People, Really Weird

  Interview with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2012.

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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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• 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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• We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

  Emilio Pucci

  Pieces, Woods, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

  Josh Young

  Finishing, Scene, Ends

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dvds, Years, Effort

  Source: collider.com

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• There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Dissonance, Nigeria

  "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2008.

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• I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Littles, Tiny, Habit

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• It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

  Napoleon Hill

  Important, Way, Unexpected

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.143, Penguin

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• If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Quality, Body

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• You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.

  Tom Ford

  Moving, Men, Beard

  "Tom Ford, a Singular Man". Interview with Lisa Eisner, blog.bergdorfgoodman.com. August 23, 2011.

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