Unusual Quotes - Page 5

• We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Usual, Not Interested

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• I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

  Johnny Cash

  Thinking, Style

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, tpr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• I, myself, am strange and unusual.

  Winona Ryder

  Strange

  "Fictional character: Lydia". "Beetlejuice", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

  John Paul Stevens

  Punishment, Suffering, Trends

  Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35, www.law.cornell.edu. 2008.

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• I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Thinking, Coaching

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• I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Real, Night, Play

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• I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

  Didi

  Voice

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• If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Dna, Names, Differences

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.

  Charles Tart

  Feel Better, Thinking, Feelings

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• Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a 'cathedral' for worship of knowledge, they are also 'sheltered workshops' for the socially challenged.

  Tony Attwood

  Character, Dedication, Tolerance

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.301, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

  Mimi Rogers

  Falling In Love, Meeting Someone, News

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• But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

  Paul Weyrich

  Enemy, Faces, Conflict

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• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  Rachel Bilson

  Skins, Vaseline, Use

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• Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

  Kansai Yamamoto

  Men, Auras, Faces

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• The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.

  Eric Ries

  Imagination, Historical, Quality

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.273, Crown Business

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• Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Eggs, Cooking, Secret

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• I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Liars, Stupid, Believe

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• There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

  Chris Stringer

  Fossils, Modern, Enough

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• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, Opposites

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

  John Grant

  Beautiful, Aquariums, Leader

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• My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

  Bruce Nauman

  Ideas, Video, Situation

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• Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Hair, Ego, Would Be

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• To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

  Warren Buffett

  Emotional, Discipline, Decision

  "3 Books That Changed Warren Buffett's Life" by Patrick Morris, www.fool.com. December 25, 2013.

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• The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

  Robert M. Fresco

  Medicine, History Of Medicine

  "Fictional character: Prof. Gerald Deemer". "Tarantula", www.imdb.com. June 26, 1955.

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