Unusual Quotes
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.
Frances E. Willard -
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
William James -
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster -
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.
Thomas Sowell -
Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.
Saoirse Ronan
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
Elia Kazan -
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White -
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.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot -
That's not so unusual in North Florida and West Florida. It didn't used to be unusual. It was completely unremarkable for the longest time.
J. M. Roberts -
If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.
Jesse Livermore -
I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.
Vladimir Putin
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I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
Arthur Bradford -
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
Zoë Heller -
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
Ettore Sottsass -
It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.
Erik Spoelstra -
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
Mikhail Lermontov -
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.
Beaumont Newhall
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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.
Stanley Kubrick -
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
Chris Stringer -
I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.
George Biddell Airy -
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
Sebastian Coe