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I have always idolized eccentric people. -- Brandon Boyd
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. -- Anton Chekhov
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. -- Gene Tierney
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. -- John Stuart Mill
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric. -- Al McGuire
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. -- Franz Schubert
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. -- Marilyn Hacker
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them. -- Maynard James Keenan
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. -- Uma Thurman
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. -- Steven Brust
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. -- Crispin Glover
Look, I promise I'm not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I'll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland. -- Randy Newman
My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland. -- Randy Newman
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric. -- Dorothy Kilgallen
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. -- Regina Brett
Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.... -- Ellen Terry
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect. -- Marian Seldes
I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives. -- Jim Gaffigan
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful. -- Tadashi Yanai
I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention. -- Graham Elliot
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. -- Douglas Coupland
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults. -- Laura Prepon
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. -- Bobby Heenan
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. -- Jacques Derrida
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. -- Nick Lowe
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. -- Julie Walters
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings. -- Dana Carvey
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. -- Stephen Fry
I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. -- Michael J. Fox
Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback. -- Charles Spurgeon
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand. -- Louise Jameson
I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.' -- Daphne Guinness
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. -- John Stuart Mill
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. -- John Phillips
It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up. -- Crispin Glover
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. -- William Jackson
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. -- Brian Eno
I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world! -- Richard Briers
Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great! -- Sylvester McCoy
Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her whims. If she likes you, she might tell you something. If she doesn't, well..." Ms. Terwilliger shrugged. "Then maybe we'll have time for photo ops." "Score," said Adrian. When I shot him a look, he added quickly, "But of course she'll like you. -- Richelle Mead
What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Sci-fi fans are eccentric. -- Traci Bingham
I do some eccentric dancing. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Normality is the new eccentric. -- Criss Jami
People are quite frequently eccentric. -- Jane Smiley
My teachers were often very eccentric. -- Anne Waldman
That's what being eccentric means--being natural. -- Lorraine Hansberry
ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. -- Newt Gingrich
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. -- Mark Twain
When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric. -- Andrew Hill
I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric. -- April Greiman
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. -- Demi Moore
I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric! -- John Cleese
I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser. -- Michael Sheen
It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric. -- Paloma Faith
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars. -- Tycho Brahe
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric. -- Ilona Andrews
Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric. -- Thelonious Monk
The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric. -- James Joyce
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane. -- Bruce Robinson
I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.' -- Daniel Radcliffe
My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught. -- Steve Young
It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays. -- Stephanie Mills
My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world. -- Katy Perry
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. -- Bret Lott
I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely. -- Emma Forrest
I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. -- Tom Waits
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. -- Jules Verne
I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world. -- Paloma Faith
It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. -- Yvon Chouinard
I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase. -- Zaha Hadid
The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo -- Ellen Raskin
Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker -- Troy Denning
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. -- Dave Eggers
The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. -- Michael Cunningham
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring. -- Katherine Heigl
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. -- Hayao Miyazaki
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric. -- Al McGuire
I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff. -- Lady Gaga
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. -- Wallace Stevens
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. -- Ian Hislop
I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot. -- Arthur Bradford
I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric. -- Adolf Hitler
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. -- Jay McInerney
I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice. -- Jose Mujica
You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it. -- Rupert Everett
I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say. -- Lee Ryan
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. -- Noel Gallagher
My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. -- Sophie Kennedy Clark
Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. -- Toba Beta
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go. -- Nicolas Cage
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. -- Dodie Smith
I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! -- Brandon Sanderson
If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. -- Suzanne Collins
People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric. -- Cheyenne Jackson
If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor." -- Suzanne Collins
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. -- Toni Bentley
A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away. -- Isabel Toledo
I think BjÃ¶rk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact. -- Thomas Mars
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. -- Douglas Coupland
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric. -- Greg Behrendt
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. -- Marjorie Benton Cooke
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. -- Jon Ronson
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. -- Camille Flammarion
When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like. -- Eva Green
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. -- Saul Bellow
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. -- Henry Steele Commager
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express. -- Oliver Herring
I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart. -- Anthony Liccione
I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird. -- David A. Stewart
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric. -- Temple Grandin
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. -- Fanny Burney
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld

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