Strange Quotes - Page 28

• I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Passing, Passings

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• Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Shoes, Vulnerable, Situation

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• So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Liberty, Foundation

  "Rush: Obama bastardizing Constitution" by David Mark, www.politico.com. February 28, 2009.

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• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  Haniel Long

  Drama, Friendly, Watches

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• If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

  Christian Louboutin

  Feet, Looks, Arches

  "Head Over Heels" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 1, 2009.

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

  David Lynch

  Play, Musician, Strange Things

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• When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Jobs, Writing, Strange Places

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

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• I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

  Penny Marshall

  Insecurity, Combination, Massive

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

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• Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Marriage, Crazy

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• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Sight, Analysis

  Karl Marx (1988). “Marx Selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

  James McAvoy

  Strange Places, Littles, Film

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• I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

  James McAvoy

  Drama, School, Home

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• I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

  James McAvoy

  Taken, Acting, Magazines

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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Affair, Certain

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Thinking, Giving

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Confidence-Man”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Men, Matter

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

  Sienna Miller

  Romantic, People, Life Is

  "Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom'". Interview with Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2011.

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• A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

  Moby

  Scary, Manhattan, Brooklyn

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

  Moby

  Long, Interesting, World

  "Destroyed: Moby". Interview With Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams, www.dazeddigital.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

  Moby

  Gears, Machines, Buying

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• Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

  Moby

  Touring

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• The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

  Moby

  Insecure, Ideas, People

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• I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

  Moby

  Boys, People, Interesting

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• It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

  Moby

  Hate, People, Mets

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