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“Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.”

Humans Mother Tradition Jew Scales Operations Genocide Unusual Pie Cherries Massacres Mother Love Old Traditions Cherry Pie

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.”

Way Facts Dream Stars New York Possibility Actresses Satisfied Despite All Time Perceive Unusual Outstanding

Author:Lee Strasberg

“I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.”

People Unusual

Author:Elvis Costello

“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.”

Two Important Law Mother Girl Growing Up Study Growing Generations Degrees Independent Two Things Unusual My Generation Girls Growing Up

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.”

Would Be Today Steps Taxes Punishment Enormous Code Internals Flats Unusual Revenue Steps Forward Flat Tax Cruel And Unusual Punishment

Author:Arlen Specter

“There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.”

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Author:Dyrol Burleson

“I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?”

Knows Years Care Unusual Who Cares Botox Toothpaste

Author:Simon Cowell

“What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.”

Firsts Children Important Care Parent Health Hollywood Actresses Health Care Unusual

Author:Danica McKellar

“In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.”

Made Easier Shapes Normal Aspect Sight Surface Decades Witness Range Features Explanation Description Unusual Distinguished Ufo Identification Abnormal Daytime

Author:Don Berliner

“This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.”

Inspirational Might Funny Used Felt Bits Careers Property Starting Setting Settings Unusual Sail Sailing Unpredictable Compounds Columbus Methodology Setting Sail

Author:Donald Cram

“When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.”

People Thinking Needs Firsts Made Film Easy Imagination Impossible Cameras Things To Do Unusual Tape Recorders Unusual Things

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.”

Found Literature Creation Unusual Percentages

Author:Julio Cortazar

“Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.”

People Real Situation Comedy Unusual Farce

Book:Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

Source: Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.”

Ifs Needs Ordinary Unexpected Unusual Bizarre Commonplace Disdain Esoteric

Book:Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

Source: Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

“Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.”

“The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.”

“I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher”

Teacher Unusual Being A Teacher

Author:Dan Simmons

“This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual”

Unusual Usual

Author:Sebastian Coe

“The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”

Ifs Men War Artist Virtue Mirrors Vices Drawing Clarity Unusual

Book:The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no

Source: The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no

“Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.”

Men Humans Numbers Conditions Circumstances Spite Nerves Unusual Sheer Accustomed Exhaustion Roaring Cannons Trenches

Book:Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]

“Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.”

Looks Motivational Path Circumstances Succeed Coaching Unusual Sensible Venture Unusual Circumstances

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.”

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Author:Billy Gibbons

“Each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity.”

People Knows Years Wells Looks Different Young Artist Sex Music Audience Fans Special Diversity Unusual Wow Young And Old

Author:Joe Satriani

“To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.”

Ifs Littles Talking Messages Unusual Ballads

Author:Al Jarreau

“My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.”

Thinking Way Children Hard Eye Mother Choices Realizing Lines Decision Behinds Vision England Finals Endless Mourning Unusual Weeping Coffins Hard Decision

Author:Rudolf Hess

“Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.”

Certain House Expensive Unusual Articles Unnecessary Furniture Bipolar Extravagance Mania

Author:Benjamin Rush

“In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.”

Men Mystery Divine Skills Achievement Capacity Miracle Possession Myth Defined Divinity Sparks Unusual Identical

Book:Creation Myths: Revised Edition

Source: Creation Myths: Revised Edition

“Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.”

Pain Purpose Punishment Unusual Fierce Severe Finality

Author:William J. Brennan

“I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.”

Christian Found Intellect Resolve This Day Unusual Uncommon Endowment

Author:David Livingstone

“In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.”

Book Jobs Water Rich Journey Rivers Lifetime Prose Fascinating Unusual Invites Engineers Dots Jessica Captivating Hudson River

Author:Jon Meacham

“Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity. Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.”

Book Cases Determine Unusual

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.”

“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.”

“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.”

Games Belief Situation Capitalism Fairs Socialism Unusual Collapse Greedy Suicidal Rivals Unleashed Fair Game

Author:Gunter Grass

“Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’”

People Thinking Firsts Looks Character Bigs Seems Company Technology Crazy Products Internet Radical Unusual Breakthrough Bitcoin 140 Character Uber Airbnb

Author:Marc Andreessen

“Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.”

Stills Unusual Acid Supplements Nicknames Chemist Back In The Day Amino Acids

Author:Frank Zane

“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.”

Should Moments Bigs Imagination Quality Depends Built Historical Prosperity Our Time Collectives Our Future Unusual Big Questions Future Prosperity

Book:The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“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.”

Ifs Trying Looks Names Energy Differences Embrace Shining Individuality Throwing Heritage Unusual Wasting Time Dna Time And Energy Throwing Away Unusual Names

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“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.”

Ifs Made Character Shows Worship Research University Tolerance Comment Unusual Dedication Originality Cathedrals Workshops Renowned

Book:The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

Source: The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

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

Voice Unusual

Author:Didi

“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.”

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Author:Ron Ben-Israel

“We are a very, very unusual species.”

Species Unusual

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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?”

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Author:Mimi Rogers

“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.”

States Faces Nations Enemy Conflict Threat Radical Unusual Scientism Islamists

Author:Paul Weyrich

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Feelings Special Dangerous Unusual Feel Better Dangerous Things

Author:Charles Tart

“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.”

“I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way.”

Way Different Wanted My Way Unusual

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

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

Ifs Thinking Believe Persons I Believe Talent Stupid Deny Liars Unusual

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.”

Men Politician Unusual Typical Public Life

Author:Lyn Nofziger

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