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“Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.”

People Men Philosophy Able Accepting Profound Obvious Expected Odd Sane Absurdity Obscurity Syllables Hegel

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.”

Should Past Difficult Focus Odd Inspection Uninvited

Author:Richard Russo

“It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. And it was only in later years I suppose when I was about nine or so, that I realised there was this thing called composing.”

Writing Years Littles Used My Own Nine Odd Realised Composing

Author:Richard Meale

“I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”

Thinking Way Two Stories Hate Dark I Hate Originals Wounds Odd Iconic Scrooge

Author:Jim Carrey

“I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.”

Writing Hard Stuff Jokes Come Up Comic Odd

Author:Lewis Black

“For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.”

Mind Ideas Reason Bigs My Own Discipline Casts Extremes Odd Reaching Fence Big Ideas Small Ideas Multidisciplinary

Author:Charlie Munger

“I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.”

Book Stories Light Night Reading House Research Ghost Odd Every Night Chapters Splendid Collecting Suitable Little Women Ghost Stories Haunted Houses

Book:Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel

Source: Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel

“Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.”

Trying My Own Pay Company Struggle Scripts Odd Philadelphia Cheesecake

Author:Nancy Meyers

“I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?”

Found Bits Mistake Appeals Odd Aggravating

Author:Dan Ariely

“The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.”

Odd Islands Cripples Odd Things

Author:Garry Hynes

“I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.”

Felt Pieces Happened Historical Saint Odd Toms Resonance Gucci Mcqueen

Author:Hamish Bowles

“My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.”

Mind Happens Odd Juxtaposition

Author:Ruth Ozeki

“He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.”

Source: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History

“John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.”

President Security Threat Busy Terrorist Odd Toms Too Busy Homeland John Kerry Ridges Homeland Security Briefing

Author:David Letterman

“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.”

Firsts Littles Bigs Remember Terrible Scene Battle Speech Paper Jokes Drawing Backgrounds Odd Covered Bubbles Sheets Carnage Odd Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.”

Ifs Way Strong Can Do Clear Election Odd Objections

Author:Joan Blades

“It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?”

Ifs Dies Felt Laughing Odd

Book:Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:

Source: Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:

“... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.”

Eye Funny Hours Half Streets Cold Humorous Standing Very Good Posts Odd Gentleman Lamps Beef Steak Inconvenient Bruises Waiter

Book:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)

Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)

“Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.”

Poetry Literature Names Odd Seekers Dickens Avid Gravestone

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.”

People Has Beens Made Care Order Virtue Humour Laughter British Odd Damn Acceptable

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.”

Men Generations Fairs Feminist Odd Ducks

Author:Nancy Friday

“What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.”

Ifs Way May Seems Would Be Young Belief Atheism Balance Careful Positive Atheism Favors Unhappy Conclusion Odd Thinker Elders Free Thinkers

Book:The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery

Source: The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery

“I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.”

I Can Done Shows Remember Can Do Comedy Television Judgment Odd Odd Things Comedy Shows

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.”

Knows Children Tendencies Odd Uncomfortable Sarcastic

Author:Mila Kunis

“In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.”

Knows Firsts Stage Cry Materials Goes On Letters Dear Fishes Comedian Odd Guts Dear John

Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

“Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.”

Way Philosophy Particular Offers Standards Code Odd Ethical Live Your Life Way To Live Odd Things Socratic

Author:Stephen Fry

“The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).”

Way Firsts Littles Book Character Stories Past Used Reading Found Language Easy Bits Difficult Little Bit Rhythm Odd Behave Chapters Thrilling Genesis Great Book Inexplicable Odyssey

Author:David Plotz

“Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation, and people are gonna listen to this." It's an odd thing, but it's really cool.”

People Feels Believe I Can Records Conversation Odd Hanging Out Really Cool Odd Things

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.”

“When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.”

Years Persons Philosophy God Able Order Father Son Devil Opposites Odd Twelve Contemplating Trinity Inference

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.”

“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”

Long Lasts Literature Odd Originality

Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend about adolescents. . . . That they do not confide in us is hardly surprising. They use wise discretion in disguising themselves with the caricatures we design for them. And unfortunately for us, as for them, too often adolescents retain the caricatured personalities they had merely meant to try on for size.”

Knows Trying Facts Use Wise Design Emotional Personality Size Odd Surprising Adolescence Infant Discretion Caricatures Emotional Life

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.”

World Bones Odd Regimes Flood Fossils Metternich

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible”

Love Wanted Mother Girl Impossible Shoes Odd Bergman Impossible Love

Author:Gregory Corso

“Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.”

Source: Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

“Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.”

I Can Acting Kings Performances Odd Endurance Feats

Author:Frank Rich

“The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.”

Men Ends Spring Discovery Tyranny Odd Frightened Contempt Tyrants Petty Despotism Exhilarating Despots Arab Spring

Author:Fouad Ajami

“It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.”

Trying Firsts Kind Littles Stills Play Moments Individual Bits Hours Wonder Couple Little Bit First Time Odd

Author:Michael Shannon

“It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.”

Personality Fame Odd Beast Multiple Multiple Personalities

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.”

People Way Years Able Odd

Author:Sean Hannity

“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.”

World Long Stills Reason Jobs Guy Roles Wise Like You Type Long Time Models Adults Pressure Bills Odd Role Models Grandfather Long Time Ago Your Best Friend

Author:Kevin Smith

“There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself. But if you can be objective, I can see how it's really useful as a tool, especially if you're doing something physical.”

Ifs Looks I Can Wanted Actors Watches Scene Directors Tools Objectives Odd

Author:Ray Liotta

“I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.”

Trying Kids Opportunity Stuff Enjoy Odd

Author:Jessica Alba

“With every character you play, as these guys will tell you, there's a part of you goes into that in terms of the ingredients of making this stew. There's most definitely a part of me in Captain Jack and now, fortunately or unfortunately, there's a great part of Captain Jack in me as well. Basically, I can't shake him. He won't leave me alone. He just sort of keeps showing up at odd times.”

Wells I Can Play Character Guy Term Odd Shakes Ingredients Captains Leaving Me Me Alone Showing Up Leave Me Alone Stew Captain Jack

Author:Johnny Depp

“Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.”

Use Worry Ordinary Backgrounds Odd

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Republicans are now saying that Dan Rather should lose his job because he misled the country with bogus information. Which is odd because the Democrats are saying the exact same thing about President Bush.”

Should Country Jobs President Loses Information Republican Democrat Odd President Bush Misled

Author:Jay Leno

“Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?”

Men Should Hard Rich Fruit Secure Odd Thieves Repent Frivolous Vagabonds

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.”

Hands Government Would Be Action Courses Millions Balance Cost Debt Holes Odd Pounds Massive Assets Payment Hand In Hand Own Business Liability Entirety Assets And Liabilities

Author:Nicola Sturgeon

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