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• In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.

  Jon Meacham

  Jobs, Book, Journey

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• It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

  Al Gore

  Political, Bigs, Beneath The Surface

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

  Julian Baggini

  Phones, Waiting, Google

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• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Alaska, States

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.mrc.org. October 1, 2008.

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• A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Play, Sound

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• Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

  Alison Gopnik

  Teaching, Adults, Fundamentals

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• Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

  William J. Brennan

  Pain, Punishment, Purpose

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• Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

  Nicolas Cage

  Crazy, Character, Nuts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Trying, Want

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

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• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

  James Cameron

  Mean, Successful, Agreement

  "Man of Extremes The Return of James Cameron" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

  Benjamin Rush

  House, Bipolar, Extravagance

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• ...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Accomplishment, Soldier

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• Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

  Jeff Bridges

  Pressure, Film, Enjoy

  "Jeff Bridges Interview - THE AMATEURS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Sex, Artist

  "From the Archive: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen Discuss the 2003 G3 Tour". "Guitar World" Interview, www.guitarworld.com. November 2003.

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• Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

  L. Frank Baum

  Land, Life Is, Scarecrow

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• Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Coaching, Looks

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• Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Roaring

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

  George Grosz

  War, Artist, Men

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.

  Frank Zane

  Nicknames, Acid, Back In The Day

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• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Character, Technology

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• My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

  Rudolf Hess

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

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• After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

  Gunter Grass

  Suicidal, Games, Rivals

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• I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mind, Enthusiasm, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Events, Different

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• She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

  J. K. Rowling

  Moving, Body, Way

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