Freak Quotes - Page 17

• When we give of ourselves, our time, and our money, we're also giving up control. As a control freak myself, I know that sounds scary, but I've learned that the momentary lack of control forces me to look at what I do have and truly count my blessings. I have clean drinking water. I have food on my table. I have a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Suddenly, my panic-stricken mindset is replaced with gratitude.

  Jen Lilley

  Gratitude, Giving Up, Drinking

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• You could say that to the pope. I want to talk to you about Jesus. He'd be like, easy, freak.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Jesus, Want, Pope

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too.

  DJ Khaled

  People, Scare, Want

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

  Alice Mattison

  Thinking, Sometimes, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I bring - my team and I, because it's not only me - is this sense of elegance and casualness, and no pretension. There's also a sense of loyalty - loyalty to my customers, but also loyalty from my staff. Also, I think a sense of perfection; I'm a bit of an obsessed freak with perfection. I think I bring craziness sometimes, because if there is someone who's going to dare do something crazy, it's me.

  Daniel Boulud

  Loyalty, Crazy, Team

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really like to plan and think ahead and put things in their place. I'm a bit of a control freak. In many ways, I have done myself a great service over the years in trying to loosen that a bit, and trying to learn how to be present and be comfortable with where I am in any particular moment, literally and figuratively. To try and find the joy and peace in any situation, even if I feel like I don't have a handle on where it is or where it's going.

  Jenn Wasner

  Thinking, Joy, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."

  Winona Ryder

  School, Parent, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.

  Mark E. Smith

  Sorry, Writing, Boys

  Source: thequietus.com

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• To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our own conclusions, and sometimes depart from the pack, sometimes move away from the tribe. And I'm not seeing a lot of that right now among a sizable portion of American politics and American voters. I'm not seeing that kind of use of critical thinking, and it really, really freaks me out.

  Karyn Kusama

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit of a control freak, brutal when it comes to my art because I believe it's the best way of doing it, for me. My stubbornness has given us the chance to play in some amazing places that most people never would have been allowed to play in. If I don't put a value on my work, then nobody else is going to.

  Einar Selvik

  Running, Art, Integrity

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. Surrendered people understand that they can't always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don't try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles.

  Judith Orloff

  People, Creative, Stressed

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• I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.

  George Thorogood

  Bob, Dylan

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.

  Solange Knowles

  Mother, Team, Thinking

  Interview With Beyoncé, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 10, 2017.

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• We're Hollywood, it's no big deal to see movie stars, TV stars, whatever. But if I go outside of LA, that's when people freak out.

  George Stults

  Stars, People, Hollywood

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Boys, Night

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Bush, as far as I'm concerned, is a war criminal. With Trump, we have no idea. Right now it's just a freak show.

  Mike Dirnt

  War, Ideas, Criminals

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• They're all gonna be considered kooks and freaks and so forth. My point here is that many in the Drive-By Media, the faces that you see (sigh), they're just are repeating what's presented to them. They're repeating what they hear when they talk to other like-minded people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, Faces

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Destiny, America, President

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Maybe I'm just a freak of nature, but I like every aspect of touring. I like it when you play amazing shows and everyone's in high spirits, I like hating everything and wanting to be alone, I like the days that are boring and there's nothing to do, I love the time wasted. I love everything about it.

  Ahmed Gallab

  Hate, Spirit, Wasting Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The stories just keep showing up in my head - and I really hope they keep it up! I write what I'm told, and as long as I do that, I don't have any problems with writer's block or anything. The issues come only when I try to force the story or the people in it to do things they don't want to. As a control freak, it's funny that I've learned to be so comfortable with being out of control in what is arguably one of the most important areas of my life!

  J.R. Ward

  Block, Writing, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

  Tilda Swinton

  Feelings, Walks

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

  Seth Rogen

  Done, Apes, Comedy

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• I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

  George Carlin

  Cutting, Nuts, Insanity

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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