Unusual Quotes - Page 11

• There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, United States

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World”, p.122, South End Press

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• I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

  Stana Katic

  Adventure, Trying, Television

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• There are a lot of guys kind of on the bubble that can either be that sort who turn into journeyman kind of guys that will find a new spot or guys that can make a claim to be in one place for a long time. You can name a lot of names this year, an unusual number. And I think that most of them will be OK.

  Steve Young

  Thinking, Years, Names

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• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  Abbie Cornish

  Hollywood, Body, Actresses

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• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  Janet Jackson

  Birthday, Hair, Age

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• I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.

  Andie MacDowell

  Doors, Long, Risk

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• It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Names, Who Cares

  "Why Stars Name Babies Moxie, Moses and Apple" by Alex Williams, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2006.

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• The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Opportunity, Want, Way

  Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Athlete, School, Covered Up

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• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Party, Character, Gun

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Redemption, Human Connection

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• Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Powerful, Thinking, Years

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• I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

  Linda Hunt

  Always Trying, People, Size

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• I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, People, Important

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• As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

  David Rockefeller

  Children, Different, Exceptional

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.38, Random House

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• Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

  Matt Groening

  Dog, Father, School

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

  Christopher Reeve

  Brother, Father, Responsibility

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• England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, England

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• I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

  Amber Heard

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.

  Colleen Coble

  Stories, Occupation, Ends

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• East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

  David Hockney

  Rivers, East, Valleys

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• A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.

  Edouard Boubat

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

  George Lucas

  Mean, Thinking, World

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview With Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

  John Lydon

  Giving Up, Eye, Musician

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• There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.

  Rankin

  Photography, Stars, People

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