Odd Quotes - Page 28

• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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• It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.

  Max Born

  Moving, Science, Thinking

  Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?

  Cees Nooteboom

  Life, Clubs, Boring

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• So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.

  E. L. James

  Sex, Love You, Men

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• How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

  Joseph Sobran

  Thinking, Reality, Government

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• As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Growing Up, Thinking, Forever

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• I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Class, Shoes, Purple

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• I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

  Julian McMahon

  Father, Prime, Ministers

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• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  Charles Sheffield

  Couple, Reading, Believe

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• I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

  Logan Lerman

  Growing Up, School, Maturity

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  Laura Marling

  Thinking, People, Way

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

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• It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Hate, Loses, Anonymity

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• It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Weakness, Force, Equal

  "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.

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• When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.

  Max Horkheimer

  Religious, Philosophical, Humility

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1947.

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• An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

  Phil Vischer

  Writing, Outlook On Life, Life Is

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

  David Letterman

  Running, Father, Texas

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• I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

  Kevin Spacey

  Book, Writing, People

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• It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

  John Gierach

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2011). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  Bernadette Peters

  Thinking, Years, Way

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• So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Jobs, Government, Gone

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• If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Ifs

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

  Catherine O'Hara

  People, Scary, Monsters

  Source: collider.com

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• It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.

  Michael Keaton

  Thinking, Ideas, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

  Dolly Parton

  Strange, Accepting, Accept Me

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• I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

  Amanda Righetti

  Night, Cake, Watches

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