Exotic Quotes

• I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Ocean, Dumb

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• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  Campbell Scott

  Crazy, Years, Interesting

  "Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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• People always like things that seem exotic.

  Jane Birkin

  People, Seems

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• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, May, Hunger

  "Toothbrush, bikini... and dead poet" by Philip Marsden, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2002.

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• Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch.

  Howie Dorough

  Girl, Bird, Looks

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• SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

  Patrick Califia

  Art, Clothes, Sms

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• Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Happiness, Birth, Celestial

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• An exotic and irrational entertainment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humorous, Opera

  Lives of the English Poets "Hughes" (1779 - 1781)

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• She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Moving, Saws

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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• The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Civilization, Choices, Starving

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• Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

  Paul Theroux

  Mind, States, Existence

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• The only real failure is the failure to try.

  Judi Dench

  Real, Trying

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• Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

  Tara Brach

  Needs, States, Arise

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• I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

  Anna Kournikova

  Luxury, People, Gourmet

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• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Flower, Tree

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• Single by choice, just not my choice.

  Celia Imrie

  Dating, Choices

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• The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Grows

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

  Thurston Moore

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

  Persis Khambatta

  Roles, Terrorist, Ifs

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• There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

  Chris Patten

  Voting, Way, Election

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• I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

  Mark Haddon

  Travel, Writing, Thinking

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• Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Years, Work Out

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• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

  John Grierson

  Drama, Earth, Ends

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