“I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or, I would call it, unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them, that sort of thing.” MeanNationsWeaponsMassDestructionThreatRussiaUnusualPrincipalIntimidatingWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionPeripheryUnorthodox Author:James Mattis
“There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.” MenDifferentCharacterShowsMovingExcitingBillsUnusualCastingClownX MenDifferent CharactersMime Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights.” PeopleShouldShowsBodyCasesGrowingRightsCitizensProtectConstitutionPunishmentUnusualAmendmentsProceduresViolationTransgenderPrecedentCruel And Unusual Punishment Author:Allyson Robinson
“I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.” FirstsDoneFilmDirectorsUnusual Author:John Hurt
“[9/11] was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.” MessagesSpokesMeant To BeUnusualNegotiationWere Not Meant To Be Author:Edward Said
“For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt as a way to push myself into alternative compositions by selective focus, different speeds of exposure, and unusual perspectives.” KnowsWayDifferentPracticeDoubtFocusPerspectiveAdvantagePhotographSpeedAlternativesDigitalUnusualCompositionExposureSelective Author:Michael Kenna
“I love coming to D.C. I think it's a very unusual city. It's so fascinating that it's this weird place that everything thinks of as the capital of the country, there is so much international business, political stuff that is connected to that part of the country that it has a very charred atmosphere.” ThinkingCountryPoliticalStuffCitiesInternationalConnectedAtmosphereFascinatingUnusualInternational BusinessWeird Places Author:Joe Rogan
“People like stories that are bigger than life, about characters with unusual powers. And when you get all the characters in the zodiac, it's so colorful, and it's so rich in different attitudes that the characters have.” PeopleDifferentCharacterStoriesAttitudeRichBiggerUnusualColorfulZodiacBigger Than LifeDifferent Attitude Author:Stan Lee
“After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.” FeelsNightSoundStruggleAuthorityUnusualTibet Author:Dalai Lama
“If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish.” IfsWorldChildrenLittlesMillionsGonePiecesTinyUnusualToysStolen Author:Noam Chomsky
“If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the last five years. So they're willing to go to almost any extent to do that. That's unusual, in fact I think it's unique in the history of modern parliamentary systems. And it's very dangerous for the country and for the world.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsCountryFactsLastsLyingFiveModernDangerousWillingUniqueFive YearsUnusualObamacareParliamentaryLast Five YearsParliamentary System Author:Noam Chomsky
“My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.” KnowsWellsReasonNamesMy FriendsStrangerDo You KnowUnusualAdoptedSpainBarcelona Author:Pablo Picasso
“The Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are, and no matter how simple you are, God has a plan and ability to come into our world and do something unusual.” PeopleWorldMatterSimpleAbilityCommonPlansMessagesOur WorldUnusualUncommonGod Has A PlanChristmas Message Author:Max Lucado
“I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about acting or a career. I just wanted to be Ron, really. It was a very unusual introduction into the industry, and we learned so much. It's been a real education and an evolution. I really, really enjoy this.” BookRealWantedEnjoyActingCareersFansHugeIndustryEvolutionUnusualHarry PotterIntroductionPottersReal Education Author:Rupert Grint
“It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.” KnowsStrongPresidentCasesPositionDecidedConstitutionCourtRemoveUnusualTenure Author:Alex Kozinski
“We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual. For me, it's always a failure of diplomacy. Our willingness to immediately turn to a military solution is disturbing.” PeopleDecisionMilitaryListeningSolutionsWillingnessUnusualNuclear WeaponsRhetoricDiplomacyGave Up Author:Michael Hastings
“In seven years, we'll have the highest percentage of Americans non-native born since the founding of the republic. And some people think, "Well, we've always had these numbers." But it's not so. This is very unusual. It's a radical change. And in fact, when the numbers reached about this high in 1924, the president and Congress changed the policy, and it slowed down immigration significantly. And we then assimilated through the 1965 and created really the solid middle class of America, with assimilated immigrants, and it was good for America.” PeopleThinkingPresidentPolicyChangedSevenImmigrationRadicalMiddle ClassUnusual Author:Jeff Sessions
“When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.” ThinkingMindBeliefCommonOpinionMadCommon SenseUnusual Author:Leonard Lawlor
“President Trump basically has interfered with an investigation where he may be implicated. That's outrageous. And that's why we're having so much of a conversation about it today. Everybody is talking about it because this is highly unusual.” TodayPresidentUnusual Author:Maxine Waters
“I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.” AudienceCheerUnusual Author:Colin Callender
“Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the way he talks and thinks and operates isn't in the same language as you're used to from actors who've been in a lot of things before. It brings this completely bizarre and fresh, wonderful way of approaching everything that I love being around. Not where I'm, as a producer, having to interact with him as an artist, but as somebody who can stand back and admire what he's bringing to this thing that I've nurtured to create a stage for him.” ThinkingArtistLanguageLove IsWonderfulPoetIncrediblesBrilliantAdmireProducersUnusualBizarre Author:Alessandro Nivola
“I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.” MomentsFatherEnjoyPresidentSonHusbandMy FavoriteUnusual Author:Aaron Sorkin
“It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.” PeopleWritingKindOpinionFirst TimeComplicatedDrivenFeminineSouthernUnusualSouthernerSouthern Women Author:Emily Procter
“I think that there's an idea in 2016 that if a woman doesn't have it all then she's lacking in some way, and I think that 'having it all' is the kid, the relationship and the career, and that seems horribly skewed. I get genuinely excited when I meet women - or men - who don't want to have children. It's refreshing and unusual and means they're not swayed by what society has told them, they're just listening to their own basic instincts. I love meeting people who are fulfilled by other things. I think, 'lucky old you' when I meet someone single.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanChildrenKidsListeningMeetingsInstinctExcitedUnusualJust Listen Author:Sharon Horgan
“I've seen a total eclipse from every continent - including Antarctica. And it's been a wonderful way to see the world. The eclipses take you to really unusual, off-beat places that you might not normally plan a vacation to, but they're wonderful places to go.” WorldWonderfulUnusualVacationEclipseAntarctica Author:Fred Espenak
“The idea of some contact of Donald Trump's office with the Russians to try to find areas of common ground is not irrational or unusual. The question is: Were you doing it in an appropriate way and through proper channels?” TryingCommonOfficeUnusualIrrational Author:Angus King
“I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them.” MeanDestructionThreatUnusualIntimidatingWeapons Of Mass Destruction Author:James Mattis
“I love a chance to shoot real locations, because in films in the earlier days before people traveled as much, it was exotic to see a film set in Switzerland, and that area has been taken over by CGI, mostly, and fantasy landscapes. It's unusual to see this much landscape, people say it's old fashioned. So what you're referring to is there was that period in the '50s and '60s when there were epics and you saw landscape.” PeopleRealFilmChanceFantasyTakenUnusualEpicOld Fashioned Author:Peter Weir
“I love the fact that I'm in New York, because I'm away from all of that. It's very unusual for any of my counterparts here in New York to talk about domestic issues. I enjoy not having to be close to those things in DC. But what I can tell you is the president Donald Trump is the CEO of the country. He can hire and fire whoever he wants. That's his right. Whether you agree with it or not, it's the truth.” CountryEnjoyPresidentAgreeUnusualCeo Author:Nikki Haley
“I want to say that Russia is developing along a democratic path, this is without question so. No one should have any doubts about that. The fact that, amidst political rivalry and some other domestic developments, we see things happen here that are typical of other countries, I do not see anything unusual in it. We have rallies, opposition rallies. And people here have the right to express their point of view. However, if people, while expressing their views, break the current legislation, the effective law in place, then of course, the law enforcement agencies try to restore order.” PeopleTryingCountryPoliticalBreakPathDoubtDemocraticPoint Of ViewThings HappenUnusualLaw EnforcementRivalry Author:Vladimir Putin
“I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director, or actor-director. Writers, directors, actors are all such very different people. I think it's unusual that two of those people are in one human.” PeopleThinkingDifferentDirectUnusualHybrid Author:Melissa Leo
“Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.” PeopleWarTermInterestingIntenseUnusualFountainVery Interesting Author:Rachel Weisz
“When I came to the States, I still wanted to be an electric guitar player. But moved to Santa Fe in '86. And just decided that nylon string guitar is really what I wanted to do... And that really change my life totally as well... And Santa Fe is one of those really unusual places that is such an interesting mix of culture. There is a lot of from restaurants to music... I remember one of the first groups I saw playing there in the back of a restaurant, was a banjo player, a classical violinist, and a flamenco guitarist. And I thought to myself, "What? You know, this is great."” RememberCultureInterestingPlayerMovedUnusualElectricGuitaristGuitar PlayerViolinist Author:Ottmar Liebert
“In early comics, you see the amazing awkwardness and bizarre reasoning in the storyline, and it's because comics hadn't really been invented yet. There was no format for them to follow. They were just making it up. So I try to incorporate that kind of awkwardness in my comics quite frequently, which is odd. In some ways, I can't be as awkward as I'd like. But I do think that's one way in which my comics are unusual, because I will try to make the artwork look bad, occasionally.” ThinkingTryingKindOddUnusualAwkwardBizarreAwkwardness Author:Michael Kupperman
“There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try to mobilize public opinion to affect elite policy; and I think now there are unusual, unprecedented opportunities to do so.” ThinkingTryingOpportunityGoalOpinionPolicyUnusual Author:Norman Finkelstein
“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.” BelieveI BelieveEmotionBrainComfortTrainingVariousZonePhenomenonUnusualComfort Zone Author:Berit Brogaard
“If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president Donald Trump has. And it is not unusual for a president to set up some competing power centers, as Ronald Reagan did, but there`s nothing like being the chief of staff, which has so much say over what the president reads, who the president sees, who`s the last person the president talks to before he makes a decision.” ImportantPresidentDecisionUnusualCompeting Author:Susan Page
“I like using odd materials or odd components for embroideries. I've always liked that Elsa Schiaparelli world of playing with unusual objects to make something really beautiful. That's part of the game. We can do things that are lighthearted and playful but we also do things that are quite dark and sinister. I oscillate between the two.” WorldBeautifulDarkOddUnusualSinisterReally Beautiful Author:Giles Deacon
“Not working in journalism enables full attention to writing projects, which is good. But I miss the benefits of daily contact with people who are younger, energetic, engaged. And the necessary involvement with people and places and situations that enrich the imagination. I miss the enforced encounters with unusual projections of reality.” PeopleWritingRealityImaginationAttentionSituationMissingJournalismUnusualInvolvementEnergetic Author:Linden MacIntyre
“I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place.” ReasonHabitObligationRitualUnusual Author:Geoff Dyer
“I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.” ThinkingArtDifferentProblemPastMovingArchitectureUnusualProblem SolvingMemorial Author:Maya Lin
“I've never loved the name "Rainbow" - it seems like a name you'd give to your stuffed unicorn - but I really like having an unusual name. It stands out. And it made me feel like it was okay to stand out. To be different.” GivingDifferentOkayUnusualRainbowStanding OutUnicorn Author:Rainbow Rowell
“I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else.” ThinkingWorldTryingLongTermPhotographFantasticUnusual Author:Anton Corbijn
“Of course, we always get references from the past, but that doesn't mean that the clothes have to look like the past. We need to look forward, which is why I'm fascinated by new materials, technologies, techniques, and unusual ways to use colors or textures. It's very applicable to Calvin Klein because Calvin Klein has always been about modern-ness.” MeanPastTechnologyUnusual Author:Italo Zucchelli
“It is culturally constructed, but not unnecessary. A crisis is a period in a person's life that lasts at least a year during which there is an unusual level of emotional instability, negativity, and crucially, major changes. This is important because right now, when you diagnose mental health problems, where you are in life doesn't really come into it. Psychologists are saying that it should.” ImportantProblemEmotionalCrisisMental HealthUnusualNegativityUnnecessaryPsychologistInstability Author:Oliver Robinson
“That enforced time when you have to switch off, that you're on a plane, is so unusual these days. It's just that thing of not being able to interact with other people through e-mails or social media or whatever. It's crazy how you even notice that you're not able to do that. I find that the kind of traveling - long days, particularly if you go somewhere to do a show, and then traveling again the next day - a lot of people would find pretty challenging, but I find it energizing in a weird way.” PeopleKindLongChallengesCrazySocial MediaUnusualLong Day Author:Johnny Marr
“I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this was a very unusual period in music history. So I went on assuming that one day I'm going to have my band like my heroes had their own band. So people ask me this question all the time - they go, "Bass is basically a background instrument." The other thing is that in urban music, Black music, the bass has a much higher profile.” PeopleWorldBlackHeroOne DayAssumingAsk MeUnusualUrbanProfileMy Hero Author:Marcus Miller
“The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in Ohio, and my father went to Harvard. That wasn't unusual. There was a feeling that anything was possible and you didn't have to be born into money to have a successful life. Now, people don't believe in the idea that anything is possible. We have more inequality than we've had ever before and a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.” PeopleBelieveFeelingsSchoolFatherWealthPoorSuccessfulCollegeInequalityConcentrationUnusualGrandfatherPublic SchoolMy GrandfatherAnything Is PossibleSuccessful Life Author:Lauren Greenfield
“A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units.” RealActionStrategyBottomUnexpectedUnusual Author:Richard P. Rumelt
“It is very unusual for someone from Latin American society to openly stand by his homosexuality. In my hometown, there are still lots of prejudices against gays. We are often not considered to be fully-fledged people. The family is sacred there; having children means more than anything else.” PeopleMeanChildrenGayPrejudiceLatinUnusualHomosexualityLatin AmericaHometownHaving Children Author:Orlando Cruz