Strange Quotes - Page 12

• Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.

  Will Oldham

  Writing, Awkward, Tunes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

  Patricia Arquette

  Years, Want, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.

  Mark Danner

  Dragons, Democracy, Around The World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've done a couple of fan conventions and [the fans] are legion. They're rather like Star Wars or Star Trek fans. We're very glad of the loyal fans - but it's a strange way to spend your life, dressing up like Star Wars. At least we change our costumes - I don't spend 40 years dressed up as Tywin Lannister.

  Charles Dance

  Stars, Couple, War

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• I was shooting all this time. And there was only one guy who helped to pull him. And I had to think whether I was going to keep shooting or help the guy. And so I kept shooting and then they put him in this little clinic, and I photographed through the window while they had to amputate his leg. And I felt very strange because I didn't - I felt I could have helped, but I didn't help. But then I also felt elated that I was getting a shot that would be important to the film.

  Haskell Wexler

  Thinking, Guy, Important

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Thinking, Fans, Come Up

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mean, Media, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.

  Alex Hirsch

  Believe, Fall, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Country, Korea

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I worry very, very much about an isolated country. That's what makes me nervous. Russia lives in the world. China lives in the world. North Korea is a very, very strange country because it is so isolated, and I do feel that a nation with nuclear weapons, they have got to be dealt with. Dealt with effectively.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Russia, Korea

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Japan, Giving, Credit

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

  Benjamin Carson

  Government, Care, Reason

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.

  George Pattison

  Atheist, Reading, Pride

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

  Brad Warner

  Talking, Insane Person, Guy

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

  Hal Duncan

  Jeter, Fiction, Yeats

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• I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, Creating, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

  Prefuse 73

  People, Spain, Cuban

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Trying, Stories, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

  Edgar Wright

  Looks, London, Kind

  "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

  Malachy McCourt

  Suicide, People, Awful

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.

  Malachy McCourt

  Squares, People, Missing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Ideas, Roots, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

  Edward Hirsch

  Teacher, School, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very young that can never be outdone and it's a remarkable, strange experience when you think of say Arthur Rimbaud who write poetry between the ages of 17 and 21 whose career was over by the time he was 22.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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