Freak Quotes - Page 14

• You wanna be counter-culture? You wanna be a total rebel? Get a job! You wanna be counter-culture, totally alternative, radical? Be a virgin until you get married...to a person of the opposite gender. And then stay married and pump out some kids and pay your taxes and read the Bible, you freak. You'll be just totally a rebel.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jobs, Kids, Opposites

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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

  John Boorman

  Color, Tree, Green

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Running, Nice, People

  "The Hulk is back and ready if needed". Interview with Chris Varias, www.wtsp.com. December 31, 2014.

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• I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

  Shane Carruth

  Important, Feels, Materials

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was in college - Carnegie Mellon, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh was appealing to me - and I personally feel that whole world of what we used to call "college radio" is a big part of what kept me sane through a period where I stopped dating, I felt like a freak, I felt like no girl would like me. You know, a very adolescent response to losing my hair. I turned to obsessing about The Replacements and The Smiths and R.E.M. and getting further into The Velvet Underground. People who, in my sheltered suburban life, I knew of, but didn't know fully.

  Greg Mottola

  Girl, College, People

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• I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

  Lauren Groff

  Kind, Control Freak

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• There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

  Sebastian Junger

  Couple, Ocean, Past

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• I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

  Jake Kasdan

  Girl, Television, Pilots

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• The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Decision, Principles

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.69, Lantern Books

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• From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

  Christopher Moore

  Hip Hop, Dialect, Way

  "OMFG, Horatio!" by Christopher Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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• It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.

  Bert Blyleven

  Baseball, Perseverance, Kids

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• It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other.

  Christian Bale

  Mirrors, Two, Sitting

  "Christian Bale on Heath Ledger's punk Joker, Batman's new duds and his 'Terminator' role". Interview with Dish Rag, screenertv.com. July 1, 2008.

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• Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Running, Fashion, Heart

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

  Tom Six

  Art, Hurt, Animal

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• This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

  Michael Swanwick

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.

  Seth Rogen

  School, Night, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always been someone who likes to talk to people. When I was a little kid, I sought out freaks and weirdos that wandered the streets by where I worked in high school. I would just bring them in and talk to them.

  Marc Maron

  School, Kids, People

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

  Isabel Allende

  Want, My Own, Dies

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• Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People, Trying, Way

  "Robert Rodriguez and Showrunner Carlos Coto on ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2015.

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• I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

  Mel Gibson

  Mean, Swim, Trying

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Producers, Really Long, Bossy

  Interview with Mykki Blanco, www.thefader.com. 2014.

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• The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore.

  David Foster Wallace

  Couple, Sacrifice, Ideas

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Pockets, Pants, Forget

  Source: gubelette.tumblr.com

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