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• I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

  Jennifer Hudson

  Girl, Church Choir, Voice

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• Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

  Jenna Morasca

  Dog, Joy, Parent

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• People always say to me, Youre really attractive - in an unusual way. No one ever just says, Youre attractive.

  Carrot Top

  People, Way, Attractive

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• Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

  Constant Lambert

  Sound, Shapes, Matter

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91, 1985.

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• Coast to Coast AM may just be the most unusual show I have ever witnessed or been a part of. You really almost have to be born into that arena, I think, in order to handle it. I was very lucky in that's the way I was guiding my own career. It was this thirst to really get to the bottom of some of these stories that kept pushing me.

  George Noory

  Thinking, Order, Careers

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• It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

  Mario Monti

  Running, Country, Guy

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• It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

  Mario Monti

  Initiative

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• A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Book, Different

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• Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Father, Successful, Library

  "Anthony Horowitz: My family values". Interview With Liza Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spring, Fall, Focus

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  Karin Slaughter

  Home, Trying, Fans

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• When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

  Samantha Power

  School, Support, Causes

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• He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke

  Ken Tucker

  Men, Careers, Stage

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• That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

  Paul McCartney

  Aunt, Typewriters, House

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• One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.

  Jesse Schell

  Winning, Games, Impossible

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Kids, World

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.

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• It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Team, Nba Championships, Years

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• It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Simple, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

  Brian Eno

  Artist, Comedian, Singers

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• In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

  Lewis Carroll

  Giving, Gentleman, Rooms

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub

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• World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

  Oliver Stone

  Hurt, War, Punishment

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• There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Interview with Eli Horowitz, www.believermag.com.

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• I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Matter, Speak

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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