Strange Quotes - Page 30

• It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

  David Rockefeller

  Months, Provocative, Form

  David Rockefeller (2002). “Memoirs”, Random House Incorporated

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• It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Senior, Player

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  One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Negative, Publicity, Violent

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

  Salman Rushdie

  Insane World, Realism, Seems

  "Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Space, Ordinary

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Blow, Night, Destiny

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.156, University of Illinois Press

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• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, People, Remember

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

  Franz Schubert

  Flames, Ideas, Inspire

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• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  Will Self

  Comfort, Crowds, Madness

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• Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Framed, Fellows

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 50

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• It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

  Maria Sharapova

  Red, Interviews, Tvs

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• Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Boston, Fans

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• For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

  Hu Shih

  People, Chinese, Tools

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• Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

  Lillian Smith

  Men, Years, Giving

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• Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

  Robert Smith

  Jobs, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

  Robert Smith

  World, Left Behind, Drifting

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

  Wilbur Smith

  Children, Perfect, Monsters

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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  Zadie Smith

  Rap, Funny Things, Confession

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Rap, Ghetto

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

  Hope Solo

  Real, World, Seems

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• There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Odd, Abraham

  "Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg Share 'Lincoln' Experience" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Independent, Accomplishment, Glue

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

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• On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Jobs, Kids, Drawing

  "From 'Moloch' To 'Superman Earth One Vol. 2': The J. Michael Straczynski Interview". Interview with Valerie Gallaher, www.mtv.com. November 12, 2012.

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