Odd Quotes - Page 10

• Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Dating, Guy, Creepy

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• It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

  Heath Ledger

  Girl, Real, Hockey

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• I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Good Luck, Way

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• Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Thinking, Think Of You

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• I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Wall, Plumbing

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• There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Inspirational, Life, Two

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• I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Artist

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• 'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

  Moby

  Careers, Arbitrary, Patterns

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• Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, Home, Self

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Morning, Tennis

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• Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

  Bill Parcells

  Worry, Guy, Balls

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• Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

  Karl Pilkington

  Jobs, Media, People

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

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• I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

  Martha Plimpton

  Oddities, Littles, Feels

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• Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

  Ernie Pyle

  Dark, Night, Curves

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Colin Quinn...Irish Comic Standing". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Wall, Taken, Challenges

  "Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe, Less Potter Than Ever". Interview with Logan Hill, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2013.

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Thinking, Wings

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• Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

  Jef Raskin

  Funny, Time, Humor

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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• It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Blessed, Exercise

  Mitt Romney's commencement address on gay marriage and religion at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Would Be, Visionaries

  "Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013". www.vulture.com. February 9, 2013.

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• When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

  Dan Savage

  Kids, Gay, Assumption

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• The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

  Will Self

  Greatness, Thinking, Opposites

  "All pleasant and correct". www.theguardian.com. June 30, 1996.

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• I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

  Ed Sheeran

  Sex, Thinking, Flattering

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

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