Unusual Quotes

544 quotes by 483 authors

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives.… — Benazir Bhutto
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route.… — Danny Boyle
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. — Jeff Bridges
I cast unusual people in my movies. — Albert Brooks
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an… — Nicolas Cage
I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box.… — Nicolas Cage
I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few… — James Cameron
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is… — Margaret Chan
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… — Noam Chomsky
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family,… — Francesca Annis
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he… — Hermann Kolbe
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. — Warren Buffett
The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are… — Peter Jacobsen
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism. — Noam Chomsky
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… — William James
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those… — Howard W. Hunter
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… — Raymond Chandler
The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual… — Noam Chomsky

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