Idiosyncrasies Quotes
41 quotes by 40 authors
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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one…
— Henry James
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum…
— Karl Pearson
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
— Andy Warhol
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in…
— Sufjan Stevens
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When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.
— Ethan Hawke
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Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on…
— Strother Martin
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
— D L Hughley
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the…
— Felicity Jones
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
— Joseph de Maistre
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Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities…
— Richardson Wright
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Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do--if…
— Esther Duflo
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen…
— Radha Mitchell
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One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it.…
— Wes Nisker
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White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a…
— Tom Robbins
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of…
— Harvey Cox
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