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• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Dance, New York

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• Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cells, People, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.17, New World Library

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• Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Stupid, Silly, May

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

  Julie Walters

  People, Literature, Actresses

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

  Julie Walters

  Animal, Watches, Too Much

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.

  Reggie Watts

  Race, Expression, White

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• My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Stars, Father, Character

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• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Honesty, Powerful

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

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• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Cutting, Bird

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• I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

  Florence Welch

  Clothes, Style, Costumes

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• I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

  Orson Welles

  Children, Years, Able

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

  Joss Whedon

  Teenager, School, Men

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

  Shaun White

  Wall, Thinking, Feet

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• When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

  Shaun White

  Girl, Growing Up, Talking

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

  William Allen White

  Morning, Bored, Wonder

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• What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

  Bernard Williams

  Humor, Would Be, World

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• Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

  Michelle Williams

  Missing Someone, Grief, Moving

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• Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

  Carnie Wilson

  Becoming, Becoming Famous, Strange Things

  PARADE Readers Chat With Wilson Phillips, parade.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Successful, People

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• I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Humility, Disease, Architecture

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• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Literature, Way

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Soccer, Time, Kids

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• But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

  Rob Zombie

  Attitude, Thinking, Band

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• Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

  Romola Garai

  Jobs, Acting

  "Romola Garai interview: On a roll". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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