Odd Quotes - Page 5

• I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.

  Simon Helberg

  Jobs, Piano, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jealous, People, Sometimes

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.

  Paul Morley

  Sky, Groups, Odd Things

  Source: www.chaoscontrol.com

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• I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

  Natalie Dormer

  Book, Ego, Enemy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Spring, Cancer, Book

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of us are going through an extraordinary situation at the same time, and it was odd. It was weird not having a co-star to cut away to for the most part. It just forces you to never have a deficit in the performance.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Stars, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

  Jamie Cullum

  Country, Sex, Japan

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• The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Data, Keys, Anomalies

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• Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Purpose, Way

  Source: inters.org

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• If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Years, People

  Source: inters.org

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• It was a very odd transition I guess because I didn't really intend for it to happen; it wasn't a goal of mine to end up in Hollywood and do anything other than sportscasting.

  Chris Harrison

  Goal, Hollywood, Transition

  Source: www.theartofgallivanting.com

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• It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

  Jerry Garcia

  Appreciation, Levels, Sides

  Source: medium.com

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• New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

  John Guare

  Men, Color, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Thinking, Winning

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

  Seamus Heaney

  Clue, Hunches, British

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

  Susan Sontag

  Feminist, Important, Lucky

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still pertain and don't get adjusted properly. Because the right to bear arms doesn't mean automatic weaponry designed specifically for human combat.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mean, Long Ago, Law

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• I just have a heart filled with gratitude for a wonderful family. My wife, Karen, is the love of my life, and she campaigned with me virtually every day of 130-some odd days of the campaign trail, as did our daughter, Charlotte, traveled all over the country with us. But my son, who just got married to his college sweetheart, and our youngest daughter - just am grateful for a family that has supported me in my calling to public service.

  Mike Pence

  Daughter, Country, Gratitude

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Smart, Musician, Hobbies

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.

  John Darnielle

  Book, Grief, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

  Lorna Luft

  Reality, Actors, Our Relationship

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Views, Church

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• [Mike Flynn] didn't just call Russia, he called and spoke to, both ways, I think there were 30-some-odd countries. He was just doing his job.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't today realize just how different early Christianity was in that context.

  Larry Hurtado

  Focus, Today, Different

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Opportunity, Focus, Understanding

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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