Strange Quotes - Page 29

• The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

  Moby

  Looks, Rooms, Aliens

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• It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

  Moliere

  People, Laughing, Enterprise

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• We live in a strange bubble.

  Brian Molko

  Advocating, Bubbles

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

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• We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Humans, Stills

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• I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

  Michael Moore

  Children, Two, Parent

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• It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

  Van Morrison

  Play, America, Sitting Down

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• When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

  Viggo Mortensen

  New York, Cities, Spain

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• An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Egypt, Heritage, Honest

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• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Mother, Father, Responsibility

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

  Bill Murray

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Perfect Guy, Saws

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• You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

  Edward Norton

  Ends, Because Of You, Contact

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• As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Animal

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Book

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• To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Writing, People

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• The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

  Ben Okri

  Past, Together, Jazz

  "Magical Ben Okri casts a spell on his readers". Interview with Nima Elbagir, edition.cnn.com. June 28, 2011.

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• If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Rome, Would Be

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• Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

  Guy Pearce

  Funny, People, Looks

  "Q+A: Guy Pearce, Man with a Gun". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

  Steven Pinker

  Christian, Party, Two

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• Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

  Richard Pryor

  Real, Crazy, People

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• War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Men, Giants

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press

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• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  Jason Reitman

  Childhood, Feelings, Skins

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Mean, Interviews, Ask Me

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Opposites

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