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“Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.”

Should Wells Doe States Interest United Pay Opinion United States Too Much Development Majors Concerned Jew Israel Finance Unusual Senate Bidding Subservient

Author:J. William Fulbright

“It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.”

Situation Unusual Making A Living

Author:Martha Plimpton

“Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.”

Should Feelings Happiness Natural Existence Buddhism Ecstasy Unusual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.”

Artist Pay Records Paid Contracts Unusual Royalty

Author:Jo Stafford

“It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.”

Building Unusual Prettiness

Author:Robert Venturi

“I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.”

Littles Bits Black Little Bit Unusual Sheep Black Sheep

Author:Ann Wilson

“I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.”

People Kind School Bits Support Streets Excited London Unusual Support You Too Cool

Author:David Walliams

“I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.”

People Looks Situation Ordinary Extraordinary Caught Unusual Ordinary People Involving

Author:Walter Lord

“It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.”

Film Asks Responsibility One Thing Huge Thirds Carrie Accountability Unusual Taxpayers

Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

“This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.”

Kind Ends Faces Unusual Inexplicable

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.”

Way Luck Unusual Blank Good Friend Strokes Callous Way To Success

Author:Michael Bassey

“When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.”

Stars Clear Sky Habit Unusual Contemplating Surpassing Clear Skies

Author:Tycho Brahe

“My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.”

Men Book Stories Law Brother Murder Victim My Brother Unusual In-laws Brother In Law

Author:Robert Sylvester

“Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.”

People Way Kind States Running Courses Ordinary Queens Australia Republic Unusual Royal Head Of State Queen Elizabeth

Author:Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

“Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.”

Wells Term Progress Seeing Like Me Unusual Astronaut Spaceships Rendezvous

Author:Kevin A. Ford

“I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.”

People Bigs Lines Ability Skills Believer Unusual Untapped Potential

Author:Blake Roney

“Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.”

Media Strategy Unusual Yale

Author:Merrie Spaeth

“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.”

Firsts School Sports Careers College Paper Pages High School Newspapers Editors Unusual Editorials

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“There is unusual power in united prayer. God has planned for His people to join together in prayer, not only for Christian fellowship, spiritual nurture, and growth, but also for accomplishing His divine purposes and reaching His chosen goals.”

People Christian Together Spiritual Purpose Goal Growth Prayer United Divine Chosen Reaching Unusual Nurture Fellowship Divine Purpose Christian Fellowship

Book:Mighty Prevailing Prayer

Source: Mighty Prevailing Prayer

“What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.”

Company Wonderful Media Digital Unusual Atlas Digital Media

Author:David Plotz

“People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.”

People Jobs Found Boss Unusual

Author:David Plotz

“The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.”

America Moved Extraordinary Workers Productivity Instance Unusual Wages Tandem

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.”

Thinking World Change Possibility Politician Complexes Incredibles Dare Complexity Unusual Exploring Unbelievable Unthinkable Improbable Confronting

Author:J. William Fulbright

“I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.”

Thinking Teaching Distinction Unusual Pupils

Author:Howard Pyle

“Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.”

World Giving Book Hard Technology Pages Customers Partners Collaboration Unusual Publishing Flexibility Amazon

Author:Jeff Bezos

“American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.”

World Should Two Possibility Prosperity Connected Enterprise Unusual Free Enterprise

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.”

Home Unusual

Author:Jonathan Winters

“The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.”

Wells Book Process Products Lovers Speech Excellence Superiors Unusual Aesthetic Vehicle Utility Printed Obsolete Antiques Insisting Book Lover

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.”

Doe Said Facts Artist Strong Attention Modern Subjects Painting Competition Size Colour Unusual Sheer Unfortunate Ruined Tempted Grotesque Exhibitions Sensationalism

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.”

People Ifs Trying May Strong Voice Laughing Failing Failure Dare Loud Unusual Dare To Try

Author:Joline Godfrey

“Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.”

Giving Pain Strong Force Pleasure Give Me Coffee Warmth Waking Unusual

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.”

Thinking Men Attention Economy Successful Excellence Expected Employment Performing Unusual Employers Stalking Stalking Me

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.”

Looks Night Animal Morning Late Rounds Pet Sunday Farmers Unusual Saturday Saturday Night Vets Sunday Morning

Book:Vet in Harness

Source: Vet in Harness

“Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.”

Feels Mind Mean States Natural Wonder Enlightenment Infinite Buddhist State Of Mind Unusual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.”

Ifs World Should Children Persons Light Darkness Teacher Nice Love You Filled Dancing Enlightened Unusual Light And Darkness Liberated Lovable Children Playing Vortex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.”

Teacher Special Becoming Enlightened Unusual Becoming Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.”

Littles Christian Used Loses Wonder Holy Bored Heavenly Unusual Preacher Accustomed Solemn Sense Of Wonder

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.”

Kids Parent Women Twenties Mad Unusual

Author:Joy Browne

“People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.”

People Different Becoming Unusual Becoming More

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.”

Ifs Feels Looks Ideas Different Done Action Film Sides Fiction Steps Comedy Science Fiction Unusual Action Films

Author:Guy Pearce

“I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.”

Years Used Saws Unusual Collecting Accessories Fleas Eyeglasses Flea Markets

Author:Iris Apfel

“I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.”

People Thinking Said Stills Kids Together Fun Groups Horror Scared Unusual Going Out

Author:Jason Blum

“Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.”

Ifs These Days Unusual Love Each Other

Author:James Haven

“My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.”

Trying Years Doe Actors Eight Theatre Nine Backgrounds Contemporary Dancer Unusual Ballet Nine Years Ballet Dancer

Author:William Kempe

“With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.”

Humans Character Romance Blood Fans Horror Wings Surprise Tales Welcome Prose Unexpected Unusual Butterfly Packs Fluid Gore Fast Paced Rivalry Shapeshifters

Author:Kealan Patrick Burke

“Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.”

People Wanted Beautiful Young Dies Unusual Pool Beautiful Women Women Want Goldfish Wanted To Die Starlets

Book:Eve's Apple: A Novel

Source: Eve's Apple: A Novel

“Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.”

May Young Found Individual Nations Quality Mankind Dangerous Demand Degrees Jew Invention Exception Unusual Disgusting Stock Exchange

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.”

Ifs Want Art Soul Done Stories Jobs Form Spirit Sound Religious Fans Missing Fine Appreciate Roots Sacred My Soul Awake Filmmaker Unusual Compelling Trust Me Harps

Author:Eric Zorn

“I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.”

People Thinking Together Steps Five Magic Blow Unexpected Unusual

Author:Michael Jackson

“It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.”

Dies Fun Cry Having Fun Unusual

Author:Tom Jones

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