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• Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

  Arlen Specter

  Punishment, Would Be, Today

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• It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Breathing, Technique

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• I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

  Louise Hay

  Religious, Learning, Thinking

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• If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

  Max De Pree

  People, Innovation, Climate

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• It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

  Billy Gibbons

  Character, Important

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• In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Europe, Two, House

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'". interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Boys, Play

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• Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

  Joe Klein

  Inspirational, Winning, Campaigns

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• I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Done, Aliens, Horror

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• I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

  Eoin Colfer

  Doctors, Television, Shows

  "Writing my very own Doctor Who". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Couple, Years, Luck

  "'80s actor known as Booger still busy in the biz" by Serena Kappes, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2002.

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• Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

  Elliott Carter

  Pieces, Radio, Surprising

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• I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

  Ricky Jay

  Writing, Editors, Long

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Crazy, Cowboy, Shoes

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

  Roman Coppola

  Design, Creative, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

  Steve Coogan

  Appreciation, America, Done

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  Fefe Dobson

  Mom, Struggle, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.

  Eric Zorn

  Religious, Art, Jobs

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• By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Years, Age, Longevity

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• An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Passion, Independent, Artist

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• For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

  Gerald of Wales

  Beautiful, Eclipse Of The Sun, Rising

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• Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

  Colin O'Donoghue

  Teacher, Real, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Men, Self, United States

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

  Alan Lightman

  Powerful, Father, Book

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• If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Emotional, Light

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