Strange Quotes - Page 16

• I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Queens, School, Thinking

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.

  Jeremy Irons

  Careers, Waiting, Telephones

  Source: in.ign.com

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• It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Pay, How To Be Happy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I even had success with commercials, which is strange, because out of the six ideas, two won the platinum Minerva in France - it's the Oscar for their commercials. One was about the Renault diesel and the other about the regular Renault.

  Sergio Leone

  Ideas, Two, Oscars

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• I felt certain uneasiness, a strange sensation, which had comic to a head. Every evening I went to Yahya to report that Mujib [Rahiman] and I weren't making any progress, and Yahya [Khan] showed no interest. He looked away or complained about the television or grumbled because he couldn't listen to his favorite songs - his records hadn't arrived from Rawalpindi.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Song, Progress, Evening

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.

  RZA

  Kids, Different, Kind

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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• It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on." After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy." And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.

  Manfred Rommel

  Morning, Father, Navy

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what to say at the same time. They would say, 'So you have to put your hands there, not there because the light is going to go [MAKES SOUND] so that kind of masks... but it was all good.

  Tilda Swinton

  Real, Struggle, Doctors

  Source: southernbellasways.com

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• Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.

  Tilda Swinton

  Men, Doctors, Play

  Source: southernbellasways.com

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• If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.

  Tilda Swinton

  Men, Doctors, Play

  Source: southernbellasways.com

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• I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.

  Young Thug

  Fans, Knows, Ifs

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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• I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Conversation

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• The strange part of MMA is that you lose one or two fights and people start to question you but he was on top for so long and it was purely his striking that made him so good. Nobody can step backwards and knock someone out as well as Chuck Liddell can.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Fighting, Mma, Two

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Thinking, Use, Accents

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The first time I had work in a public space it felt very strange to see people that I didn't know looking and, and presumably commenting on, my work. Nowadays, I'm a bit more fatalistic - they either like the work or they don't and there's not a lot I can do about that. The trick seems to be not to get too pissed on open nights so that I can answer any questions without making a fool of myself. Doesn't always work!

  Horace Panter

  Night, Space, People

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of the so-called Arab system, the positional system of counting with zero dated to the eighth or ninth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Zero, Discovery, Gaps

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit"; songs that were written for her or songs that she wrote herself, like "Fine and Mellow" or "God Bless The Child."

  Jose James

  Song, Children, Holiday

  Source: revive-music.com

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• I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

  John Hurt

  Memories, War, School

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

  Christopher Walken

  Country, Cat, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psycho­logical apparatus of Americans.

  George Saunders

  School, America, People

  "George Saunders Has Written a Weird and Brilliant Novel". Interview with Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2017.

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• This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed by running 2.5 miles. This keeps me healthy without taking up too much time so I can stay focused on other things. It's one of the most efficient things I do each day.

  Luis von Ahn

  Running, People, Work Out

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• Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.

  Nick Damici

  Ideas, Done, Way

  Source: dailydead.com

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• This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Desire, Quality

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• This is going to sound strange, but I really feel I know Roland very well. In Wizard and Glass, I got to know the young Roland, and then as I traveled with him from Eluria (found in the story "The Little Sisters of Eluria") through Tull and the Mohaine Desert (The Gunslinger), and then all the way to the Dark Tower.

  Robin Furth

  Dark, Glasses, Little Sister

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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