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“In an odd way, we have really destroyed two of our strongest allies against the Islamists. Saddam Hussein, and we've probably fatally undermined Bashir al Assad in Syria.”

Way Two Destroyed Odd Strongest Als Allies Syria Saddam Hussein Assad Islamists

Author:Michael Scheuer

“When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.”

Thinking Ideas Levels Deals Party Cutting Comfort West Symbols Worried Odd Bin Laden American Leadership

Author:Michael Scheuer

“I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.”

Knows Littles Government Would Be Sound Reactions These Days Odd Fearful American Government Gunslinger

Author:Michael Scheuer

“It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."”

Want Company Yeah Folks Entertainment Odd Odd Things

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.”

People Ifs I Can Beautiful Opinion Judging Weakness Odd Flaws Skinny Because I Can Make Me Happy

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Funny Odd Muppet

Author:Angelina Jolie

“It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.”

Hard Song Levels Fronts Emotional Singing Standing Stranger Bunch Vulnerable Odd Embarrassing Playing Music

Author:Matt Berninger

“Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.”

Made Together Film Vision Hollywood Be Good Factors Odd Schedules Snaps

Author:Marcus Sakey

“I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.”

Knows Trying Kind Littles Jobs Moving Odd Honorable Oysters Packing Odd Jobs

Author:Frank Fairfield

“John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.”

Way Seems Voice Quality Forever Fields Singers Celebrate Odd Mourning Twists Strawberries Lennon Enigmatic

Author:Alasdair MacLean

“First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don really got Bubba and I didn't think it could be a film. I thought it was too odd to make it to film. He asked me to do the screenplay, but I declined. I didn't see that it could be a screenplay but he wrote one and proved me wrong. He was always considerate about what I thought about the film and the story's presentation, but in the end, he's the director and he had to make decisions. All good ones.”

Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Stories Film Interest Decision Directors Odd Alas Presentation Screenplays Considerate Fruition Bubba

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.”

Humans Ideas Fans Huge Enormous Odd Sci Fi

Author:Mark Millar

“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Littles Book Character Girl Stuff Responsibility Roles Models Percent Daughter Female Window Males Stores Comic Odd My Daughter Role Models Comic Book Shelves

Author:Mark Millar

“I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.”

Whole Odd Masturbation Really Weird

Author:Lynndie England

“Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.”

Years Today Three Sitting Years Ago Odd Borders Quarters Flags Anthem

Author:Juan Enriquez

“In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.”

America Interesting Odd

Author:Miuccia Prada

“I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.”

Ifs Years Firsts Kind Play Song Forever Emotional Taste Males Boring Odd Dorky Duress

Author:Matthew Perry

“Getting recognized is sort of weird anyway. I'm 17 now. You get the odd person sort of shouting out "Ron!" or something. And my hair at the moment sort of stands out a bit, can't really avoid it.”

Persons Moments Bits Hair Odd Standing Out Shouting

Author:Rupert Grint

“I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.”

People Ifs Thinking Ideas America White Odd Our Family Rejecting Biracial Whiteness

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“Donald Trump didn't have much in the bank at all, to the tune of three-point-some-odd million dollars, whereas Hillary has something like (I don't know; I forget the number), $35 million or $40 million that she can legally spend now president the point was made that the Democrats did the same thing to Mitt Romney back in 2012 before Romney could spend the money that he had raised.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.”

“Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. In the wild, dogs don't need humans to achieve balance. They have a pack leader, work for food and travel with the pack. When we bring them into our world, we need to help them achieve balance by fulfilling their needs as nature intended. This takes exercise and discipline before affection, and always maintaining your calm, assertive pack leadership.”

World Needs Humans Helping Found Leader Achieve Dog Balance Discipline Exercise Calm Affection Odd Our World Packs Fulfilling Maintaining Predicaments Assertive Wild Dogs

Author:Cesar Millan

“I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.”

Bits Caught Appearance Legs Odd Cockpit

Book:Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky

Source: Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky

“I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.”

Years Used Stuff Records Listening Wave Odd Singles

Author:Ian Curtis

“I know someone who works in a record shop where I live and I'll go in there and he'll play me "Have you heard this single?". Singles by, er the group called The Tights, so an obscure thing... and a group called, I think, er Bauhaus, a London group. That's one single. There's no one I completely like that I can say "Well I've got all this person's records. I think he's great" or "This group's records" it's just, again, odd things.”

Thinking Knows Wells Persons I Can Play Records Heard Groups London Odd Shops Obscure Singles Odd Things Tights

Author:Ian Curtis

“In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.”

Language India Surface Odd Fifty Artificial Floating Nigeria Odd Things

Author:William Golding

“For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even though it sounds odd. "My father emotioned me." Or "That performance really emotioned to me."”

Father Sound Example Performances Odd Precise

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.”

People Want Jobs Position Shining Singers Odd Piano Opera Selfless Opera Singers Accompanists

Author:Simon Helberg

“This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.”

People Sometimes Havens Profession Odd Jealous Really Great Really Happy Get Jealous

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.”

Kind Groups Sky Possibility Singers Noise Odd Flexible Odd Things Sky High

Author:Paul Morley

“I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.”

Book Moments Enemy Ego Odd Great Book

Author:Natalie Dormer

“The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.”

Book Done Spring Cancer Odd Odd Things

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of us are going through an extraordinary situation at the same time, and it was odd. It was weird not having a co-star to cut away to for the most part. It just forces you to never have a deficit in the performance.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.”

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Author:Jamie Cullum

“The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.”

Humans Keys Easier Computer Data Odd Massive Explaining Anomalies

Author:Daniel Bruhl

“Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.”

Littles Happens Remember Memories Cases Doubt Odd Compelling

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.”

Built Legs Odd Skis Racers

Author:Bode Miller

“I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.”

Fiction Saws Odd Best Work

Author:Ann Patchett

“I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.”

Thinking Causes Planets Odd

Author:John Cleese

“To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and influenced.”

Kind Seems Magazines Odd Theme Swedish

Author:Michael S. Smith

“It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."”

Actors Sound Hollywood Horrible Odd Odd Things

Author:Norm MacDonald

“I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then every time a [new] director would come in, they have their own artistic take on things and add in new elements. And a lot of times they would ask, "What did you love that you portrayed, and what do you wish that you could show?" So I felt, with each installment, I got the opportunity to add on something. I think she was very - you know, really sweet, [laughs] a little odd in the first installment.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Kind Littles Shows Asks Opportunity Wish Felt Laughing Sweet Directors Elements Research Foundation Add Artistic Odd Really Sweet Alice Cullen

Author:Ashley Greene

“I also wanted to be like my brothers, physically, and yet not physically. So I would constantly - and I think nowadays it's taken for granted that this is what girlfriends do - I would constantly wear their shorts, put on their shirts. That did not seem odd because we were desperately poor for quite a while. It wasn't as if pretty little girlie things were available to me.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Seems Wanted Poor Taken Brother Available Granted Odd Shirts Girlfriend My Brother Shorts Taken For Granted

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it.”

Looks Pieces Fit Odd Puzzles

Author:Da'Vine Joy Randolph

“[My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.”

Two School Jobs Mother Three Brother Clothes High School Tables Stores Odd My Brother Jordan Thrift School Education Odd Jobs

Author:Cory Hardrict

“It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the biggest minority. That is a bigger minority than any other minority you can name.”

Seems America Names Diversity Bigger Atheist Odd Minorities Baskets

Author:Bill Maher

“Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite odd actually, a real deep sense of unease. You felt very odd for your country. You have lots of people that are angry. It's a very physical and public stand that these people are making.”

People Heart Real Country Felt Interesting Areas Angry Odd Really Interesting Yorkshire Real Deep

Author:Ruth Wilson

“It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.”

People Thinking Hands Identity Odd

Author:Jim Goad

“[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of an odd situation because he's a former deputy attorney general as well as head of the FBI so he may have trouble keeping on only the investigator hat forgetting that he's a former deputy attorney general. So it's not a good thing, it's a distraction so I think we should just ignore it because there's nothing there so get on with the business of last week of the election.”

“It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.”

Men Common Cases Percent Hundred Odd Multiple Tattoo Eighty Homicide Tattooed

Author:Truman Capote

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