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• I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

  Didi

  Voice

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• Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Eggs, Cooking, Secret

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• OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

  Mimi Rogers

  Falling In Love, Meeting Someone, News

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• But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

  Paul Weyrich

  Enemy, Faces, Conflict

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• If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.

  Charles Tart

  Feel Better, Thinking, Feelings

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Pneumonia, Pandemics

  "WHO increases swine flu alert". www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2009.

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• I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Liars, Stupid, Believe

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• Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Men, Typical, Politician

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• Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Divine, Abraham

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1990). “Jehovah's Witnesses I: The Early Writings of J.F. Rutherford”, Taylor & Francis

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• I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

  Chris Stringer

  Fossils, Modern, Enough

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• Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

  Trisha Goddard

  Love You, Technology, Daddy

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

  Ralph Linton

  Science, Development, Interest

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• Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

  William Allen White

  Men, Greatness, Quality

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• In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them

  Delia Smith

  Media, Years, Way

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• Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Book, Journey

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• Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Dream, Past, Journey

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• It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community

  Saul Perlmutter

  Fun, Opportunity, People

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• Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Feelings, Lust, Mind

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• I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

  Peter Greenaway

  Strange, Share, Interest

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• My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Strong, Character, Fighting

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• As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.

  Julius Peppers

  Kids, People, Saws

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• ... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Believe, Warrior, Faces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mistake, Nice, Dark

  "Jolie Spoke About Self-harm To Help Others" by wenn.com, June 13, 2008.

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