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I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. -- Christina Aguilera
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty. -- John Grierson
I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. -- Campbell Scott
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. -- Martha Graham
Exotic dancers, your instant key to a blissful vacation of the moment. -- Wayne Chirisa
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach. -- Tena Desae
Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness. -- Stephen Batchelor
Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism? -- Sam Abell
But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few. -- H.B. Bolton
People always like things that seem exotic. -- Jane Birkin
If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role. -- Persis Khambatta
An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything. -- Italo Calvino
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. -- Oscar Wilde
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. -- Thurston Moore
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting. -- Sasha Alexander
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. -- Mark Haddon
People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman. -- Sung-Hi Lee
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. -- Emily Greene Balch
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts. -- Loni Anderson
I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food. -- Carla Bley
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. -- Peter Agre
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. -- Dominic Chianese
The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. -- Timothy Radcliffe
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. -- Adam Savage
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh. -- Dana Carvey
If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers. -- Mark Shand
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic. -- Salma Hayek
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. -- Jaron Lanier
I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry. -- Thuy Trang
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic -- Anish Kapoor
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline. -- Tippi Hedren
I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. -- Alexander Wang
I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home. -- Tony Hillerman
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. -- Paul Davies
I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it. -- Graeme Base
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. -- Paul Theroux
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. -- David Christian
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. -- Simon Hoggart
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. -- Brian Greene
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars. -- Kiran Desai
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist. -- Jamie Cullum
I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom. -- Roman Coppola
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop. -- Malcolm Mclaren
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. -- Martin Filler
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. -- Loudon Wainwright III
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home. -- Vince Vaughn
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture. -- N. K. Jemisin
An exotic and irrational entertainment. -- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada. -- Nelly
They own a shop of exotic jam. -- Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer. -- Cassandra Clare
Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer -- Richard Kuklinski
And what exotic part of the world do you come from? -- Prince Philip
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic. -- Phyllis Gotlieb
Redheads get so stereotyped. Youre either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. -- Alicia Witt
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. -- Alicia Witt
She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life. -- Kim Edwards
London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour. -- Laura Fraser
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic. -- Mark Romanek
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean -- Priyanka Chopra
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed. -- Samuel Johnson
Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic. -- David Spade
It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on. -- Frank Zappa
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. -- Marie Brennan
Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically. -- Steven Gould
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. -- Daniel Pipes
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic. -- Isabella Rossellini
Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch. -- Howie Dorough
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. -- Alain de Botton
And if we never visit Paris, that's okay. Your heart is my exotic destination every day. -- John Mark Green
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic. -- Rabih Alameddine
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. -- Tony Judt
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. -- Jerry Robinson
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We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control. -- David L. Katz
She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie. -- Thomm Quackenbush
There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder. -- Chris Patten
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. -- David Weinberger
I am always at home even when I am traveling to exotic places because this world is my home. -- Debasish Mridha
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky. -- Cornel Wilde
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. -- Sam Ewing
Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive. -- Gilles Marini
That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense. -- Michelle Yeoh
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name. -- Patrick Stump
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. -- Michael Palin
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. -- Saul Bellow
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. -- Tom Waits
Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one. -- Rachel Cohn
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with. -- Alain Ducasse
You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. "?Tybalt -- Mira Grant
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. -- John Updike
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' -- Barry Eisler
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. -- Richard Schmid
When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories. -- Kevin Henkes
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. -- Paul Theroux
If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution. -- Stefanie Powers
I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up. -- Berglind Icey
Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them. -- Victoria Finlay
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods. -- Robert Benchley
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? -- Anatol Rapoport
I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover. -- Ray Metzker
People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.' -- Sung Hi Lee
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. -- Werner Herzog
In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic! -- Jim Gaffigan
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst. -- Gregory Crewdson
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. -- Neil Gaiman
I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic. -- Geri Halliwell
You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread. -- Rob Bell
Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day. -- Henning Mankell

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