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“It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.”

Want Wanted Memories Brain Design Treasure Odd Funny Things Juxtaposition

Author:Loren Eiseley

“I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.”

Believe I Can Voice Deals Records Majors Labels Odd Novelty Quirky

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.”

Ifs Way Real Problem Goal Best Way Inequality Odd Migration Real Problems Slowing Equitable

Author:Aviva Chomsky

“When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.”

People Way Want Treats Treated Odd

Author:Dave Mustaine

“It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.”

People Believe God Use Literature Names Don't Believe Strikes Odd

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.”

Ifs Men Humans Done Father Winning Sound Human Beings Son Truth Is Husband Cancer France Winner Titles Odd Survivor Cancer Survivor

Author:Lance Armstrong

“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”

Ifs Knows Feels Has Beens Poetry Highest Likes Instance Odd Poetry Is Polish Doubtful Superb

Author:Walt Whitman

“I've had such an odd career.”

Careers Odd

Author:Sally Field

“I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.”

Ifs Thinking Life Mean Littles Enough Moments Wonderful This Life Odd Worth Living

Book:One Hand Clapping

Source: One Hand Clapping

“What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.”

People Humans Alive Billions Odd Exactly Is

Author:Douglas Coupland

“When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd- but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find its way into other hearts.”

People Ifs Way Looks Heart Soul Sometimes Dream Might Song Wonder Worry Creative Focus Strange Expression Delight Focused Odd Touched Crooked Creative Expression None Of Your Business

Author:Sark

“To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.”

Way Kind Two Certain Cities Walking Philosopher Ugly Spending Odd Paris Surround Good Way Mock Spending Time Musings Large Cities

Book:Marius

Source: Marius

“The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"”

Knows Moments Facts Running Funny Waiting Chance Watches Four Sea Television Discovery Meetings Odd Running Away Hello Did You Know Nipples Otters Ticklish

Author:Dave Attell

“The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.”

Writing I Can Book Running Waiting Criticism Curious Odd Phrases Hocus Pocus

Book:The Long Valley

Source: The Long Valley

“I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.”

Years Made Odd

Author:Tony Curtis

“The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.”

Years Country Used Republican Army British Terrorism Odd Runaway

Author:John Major

“Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?”

Ifs Thinking Persons Sometimes Enough Rooms Talking Odd Telephones Mist

Author:Nicholson Baker

“90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?”

Heart Divorce Odd Discontent

Author:Bob Geldof

“I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.”

People Knows Years Mean Three Bits Careers Four Strange Odd Four Years Melbourne Erratic

Author:Colin Hay

“There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.”

Century Decades Odd Pleasant 80s

Author:Paul Kantner

“Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term "still" seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.”

Stills Real Seems Term Simple Answers Pleasure Records Stage Release Odd Meaningless Bob Dylan

Author:Greil Marcus

“I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.”

Important Book Moved Bunch Odd Mcdonalds Archer

Author:James Ellroy

“I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.”

Want Ideas Would Be Stuff Offers Odd

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.”

People Real Self Seems Talking Awareness Normal Self Awareness Odd People Talking

Author:Steve Carell

“It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.”

Men Girl Odd Movie One Woman Older Women

Author:Carla Gugino

“I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.”

Men Want Mind Stills Fine Degrees Vanity Odd

Author:Shane Black

“It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.”

Seems Social Bits Term Movement Suicide Terrorist Odd Organized Islamic Cult Factions Social Movements

Author:Craig Reucassel

“I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.”

People Looks Faces Stuff Crazy Judgment Hollywood Odd Zero

Author:Julie Bowen

“I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.”

Believe Country I Believe Honest Broken Reader Various Being Honest Odd Palms Strain Presentation Tarot Broken English

Author:Simon Baker

“It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.”

New York Odd Indiana Odd Things

Author:Bill Condon

“It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.”

Bigs America Names Known Odd Britain

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.”

Thinking I Can Play Character Shows America Reactions Odd Punk Persona 70s Show

Author:Nigel Cole

“Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.”

Littles Bits Fame Little Bit Odd Bugs Win Win Odd Things Win Win Situation

Author:John Corbett

“There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.”

Ifs Country Done Certain Stars Levels Wall Couple Summer Luxury Odd Queens Bananas Fluidity Mega Off The Wall Lizzy

Author:Lizzy Caplan

“Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.”

Ifs Done America Stuff England Appreciation Odd Unusual

Author:Steve Coogan

“I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.”

Way Ends Film Records Color Masters Involved Definitions Odd Digital Corrections Dvds High Definition

Author:John Dykstra

“I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.”

School Jobs Young Used Acting Middle Havens Sells Odd Candy Lockers Middle School Odd Jobs

Author:Paul Dano

“I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.”

Bits Crazy Odd Evangelical

Author:Gordon Gee

“I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.”

Thinking Kind Film Understanding Differences Music Is Supposed To Be Odd Classical Music Niche

Author:Danny Elfman

“It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.”

Source: The Restless Universe

“He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?”

Ifs Life Should Reason Members Decided Meetings Clubs Boring Odd Boring Life

Author:Cees Nooteboom

“So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.”

Men Want Ideas Facts Given Sex Love You Slave Odd Virginity Kinky

Author:E. L. James

“How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.”

“Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.”

Trying Looks Actors Stars Odd Movie Star

Author:Montgomery Clift

“As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.”

Thinking Young Actors Grows Forever Growing Up Growing Periods Directors Odd Awkward Be Young

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.”

Class Paint Shoes Legs Odd Phases Purple Matched Dance Class Tights

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.”

Ifs Bigs Young Father Meetings Folks Ministers Odd Prime Prime Minister Mischief

Author:Julian McMahon

“If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.”

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