Peculiar Quotes
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
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I`ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists, neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
Stanley Kubrick
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[on John Ford] Oh, Ford was a peculiar man. You had to know how to handle him. Actors were terrified of him because he liked to terrify them. He was a sadist.
John Carradine
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In The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Kincaid`s a peculiar guy. Really, he`s kind of a lonely individual. He`s sort of a lost soul in mid-America. I`ve been that guy.
Clint Eastwood
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[on his days as an alcoholic, when he was drinking Mexican Spirit tequila] I was really sort of on a prolonged acid trip. I saw things and had peculiar quasi-religious experiences. I thought I was John The Baptist, and I would talk to the sea at Malibu an...
Anthony Hopkins
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America is in a difficult position right now. It has so much wealth, it has become obese and gluttonous. It will change but it has to get through this time now. It`s not that I wish I was not from America. It just goes through these peculiar times. I coul...
Nick Nolte
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man`s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Akinobu Okada
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Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Alex Zisson
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
Al Embry
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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Mira Nair
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To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, `cause some strange things happen. I`ve seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
Tobey Maguire
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There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from that point of view.
Arnaud de Borchgrave
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Then we may move to the south side of the summit to get a full resolution image of the basin to the south. We hope to study the peculiar feature, Home Plate, in the future, as well as get some good images of the possible pathway down the hill to the basin...
Ash Patel
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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
James Weldon Johnson
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The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Alex Fisher
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
Madeleine Stowe
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Alle Fister
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we`ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Amy Saelens
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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father`s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Andreas Marx
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Love is a peculiar thing.
Alex Klein
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde`s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
Stephen Fry
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Alvina Tan
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Alex Garwood
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It has always struck me as being peculiar that we do so little with our military history, in particular with that war, although it would have been ferociously difficult to shoot before now - beyond our means and capacity to photograph.
Paul Gross
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I`ve read it.
Dean Koontz
Source: brainyquote.com
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
Carly Simon
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I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
Alta Charo
Source: brainyquote.com
