Strange Quotes - Page 26

• I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

  Danielle Dax

  Hero, Insecure, Want Something

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• I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, People, Honest

  "Ellen DeGeneres Shows Us How To Live Our Own Truth" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2016.

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• If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

  Jacques Derrida

  Insecurity, Eccentric, Threatening

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• There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosopher, Said, Unbelievable

  "Discourse on the Method". Treatise by René Descartes, Pt. 2, 1637.

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• I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mean, People, Attention

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• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Growing Up, Careers, Ideas

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• Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

  Ani DiFranco

  Honesty, Taken, Seems

  Song: Fire Door

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• It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

  Celine Dion

  Vacation, Vegas, Coming Back

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• Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

  Shelley Duvall

  Smart, Dirty, Naughty

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• Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

  Zac Efron

  Dating, Awkward, Dinner

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• People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Firsts

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How We Are Hungry”, p.104, Vintage

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• Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mother, Helping Others, People

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• There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Silly, Character, People

  "Some Actors Work Both Sides of a Script". Interview with Jason Zinoman, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2011.

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• People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

  Michael Fassbender

  Opportunity, People, Complicated

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

  Carrie Fisher

  Father, Adorable, Mad

  "'Get me to the funny bar'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2004.

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• Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Looks, Littles

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• Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

  Ben Folds

  Sorry, Couple, Sleep

  Song: The Luckiest

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• I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Nice, Cutting

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• How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

  Judy Garland

  Children, Illusion, Lost

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

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• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Fear, Fate

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• There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

  Billy Graham

  Groups, Littles, Feels

  "The gospel of Billy Graham: Inclusion". Interview with Cathy Lynn Grossman, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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• I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

  Lauren Graham

  Real, Opportunity, Hands

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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• I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mean, Men, Brain

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• I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Thinking, Way

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