Strange Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

  Guy Pearce

  Giving, Interesting, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of those strange things that happens in movies is that you need someone to actually say people's names, or else you have no idea who those kids are. This was a way for her to introduce who the important boys were in the story, but then it just was so funny that it became a centerpiece to it. When you look at the character design that Tim did for Weird Girl, and what Catherine [O'Hara] did with the voice, and it's gonna kill.

  John August

  Girl, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

  Paul McCartney

  Publishing, Strange Things

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• When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

  Mathieu Demy

  Character, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.

  Clark Gregg

  Voice, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.

  J.H. Wyman

  Thinking, Legacy, Negative

  Source: collider.com

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• It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Movement, Should, Mass

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Past, Forever

  Douglas Coupland (1996). “Polaroids from the Dead”, Harpercollins

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• Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love Is, Commodity, Imports

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• Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange.

  Holly Golightly

  Familiar

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• Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, World, Genius

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• Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.

  John Wieners

  Kissing, Men, Mouths

  John Wieners, Raymond Foye (1986). “Selected Poems, 1958-1984”, p.49, David R. Godine Publisher

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• ...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

  John Irving

  Growing Up, Doors, Long

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• The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?

  Aaron Karo

  Wall, Reading, Wine

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• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  Bernard Fanning

  New York, Cities, Two

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• I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.

  Leigh Bingham Nash

  Being Real, Shy, Kind

  Source: www.beliefnet.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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• When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Hero, Writing, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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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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