Odd Quotes - Page 34

• A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?

  Jay Leno

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

  Michael Schumacher

  Race, Numbers, Knows

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• It`s always been the same for me. I`ve always enjoyed acting, and I really love good actors; they`re such unique characters. I wish I could tell stories well, or tell a joke. Any time someone can do that it`s so satisfying. Sean Penn, for instance, is a really good actor, and he can tell a good joke or story. But it`s hard to do. Most actors have special talents that make them attractive, but they`re often odd characters.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Unique, Acting

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• I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

  Shania Twain

  Thinking, Eggs, Healthy

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• I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

  Anne Frank

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, www.encyclopedia.com. June 25, 1947.

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• Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.

  Anne Fontaine

  Numbers, Political, Desire

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.

  Jim Woodring

  Body, Wheels, Twenties

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.

  Helen Bevington

  Art, Ideas, Vision

  Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”

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• That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

  Cyrus Broacha

  India, Comedy, Problem

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• This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

  Mark Lewisohn

  Radio, Program, Mime

  Mark Lewisohn (2013). “Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years”, p.726, Crown Archetype

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• I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

  Rupert Giles

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional chracter: Rupert Giles". TV Series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ("Some Assembly Required", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.

  George Clooney

  Art, Thinking, Talking

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• People will do odd things if you give them money.

  David Byrne

  People, Giving, Odd Things

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• I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.

  Christian Serratos

  Writing, Care, Littles

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

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• The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Love Is, Men

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• The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

  Denis Johnston

  Cynical, Luck, Odd Things

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• I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

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• Woo the muse of the odd.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Muse

  Lafcadio Hearn (2002). “Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky

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• When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Odds, Minnesota

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• My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother's womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg's response was "Why don't you just act."

  Josh Brolin

  Mother, Wall, Reading

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

  Delia Smith

  Night, Insomnia, Unwind

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in unions most of my life. I think in a lot of ways unions aren't necessary anymore, because what they were started for, I think a lot of those conditions don't exist. And this union is so odd, because any sort of fight we do in this union is not for us, it's for future generations.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Fighting, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: deadline.com

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• We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

  Denis O'Hare

  Heart, Phones, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• It was difficult, and yet I was very eager to do it. It was a really odd thing. I really wanted to do that story. I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk. I really wanted to do it in the movie.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Writing, Odd Things, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

  Scott Rolen

  Baseball, Play

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