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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up. -- Alex Cox
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics. -- Rachel Weisz
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. -- Julian Clary
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics. -- Bat for Lashes
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. -- Christine Lavin
For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way. -- Adam Mansbach
I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course. -- Christopher Walken
I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy. -- Ricky Jay
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. -- Pankaj Mishra
New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings. -- Chris Noth
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries. -- Jenny Holzer
We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas. -- Harry A. Blackmun
We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even. -- Jonathan Hull
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. -- Gelett Burgess
It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge. -- Rose Macaulay
People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. -- Vaslav Nijinsky
People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown." -- Vaslav Nijinsky
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest, -- William O. Douglas
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit -- Andy Hargreaves
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. -- Christine Lavin
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish. -- Quentin Crisp
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished. -- Louise Erdrich
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ. -- Kenneth Rexroth

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