Unusual Quotes - Page 4

• I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

  Blake Roney

  Skills, People, Lines

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• Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Accessories

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• I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fire

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• This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Giving, Heaven

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• Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

  Howard Gardner

  Mean, Hands, Ideas

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• Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

  Bobby Charlton

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Democracy, United States

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.

  Jack Canfield

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

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• We are unusual and tragic and alive.

  Dave Eggers

  Life, People, Alive

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Live For Today, Conservative

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• Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

  Tim Burton

  People, Strange, Recently Deceased

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• Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

  Brian Eno

  Inspire, Collaboration, Different

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• I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

  Mos Def

  Reflection, Jamaica, Two

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• You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Crush, Husband, Long

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

  Julius Caesar

  Obscurity, Reefs, Unfamiliar

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• Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting for your car to be fixed, sometimes you see it while in bed with someone you love, sometimes you find it while you're meditating on a lone mountain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Car, Waiting

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• Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

  Bill Gates

  Heat, Kind, Environment

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

  Terence McKenna

  Alive, Earth, Matter

  "True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

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• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Unusual Things, Victory, Defeated

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• Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ideas, Romance, Mind

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Men Without Women”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

  Drew Hayden Taylor

  Special, Way, Strange

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