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Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny. -- Mick LaSalle
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention. -- Jerry Buss
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway. -- Julia Stiles
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish. -- Terrence Howard
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. -- Winston Churchill
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows. -- John Doolittle
I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish. -- Ivan Reitman
The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. -- Sid Caesar
Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all. -- Dixie Lee Ray
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention. -- Sophia Bush
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife. -- Neil LaBute
Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods -- Countee Cullen
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets. -- Jason Wu
I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish. -- David Koechner
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations. -- Ron Kind
I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance. -- Rian Johnson
First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room. -- Michael Marshall Smith
I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things. -- Paris Hilton
There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. Thats just encouraging and inspiring. -- Blake Lively
Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start. -- Robert Cialdini
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last. -- Frederick Buechner
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. -- Mark Twain
A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity. -- Morris Chestnut
The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others. The entrepreneur, like the pioneer, pushes boundaries in search of what's new, what's next. Sometimes, he brings the whole society with him, rushing forward together into a next phase of our communal human life. -- Sam Wyly
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets. -- Jason Wu
Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things. -- Lily Koppel
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. -- Douglas Wilson
I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career. -- Roger Avary
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations. -- Ron Kind
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations. -- Jason Biggs
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult. -- Graydon Carter
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories. -- Paul Bloom
It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable. -- David Cameron
It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor. -- Jeff Dunham
We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement. -- Dan Phillips
There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring. -- Blake Lively
When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea. -- David Harewood
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places. -- Paul Theroux
There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters. -- Roman Coppola
It generally appears outlandish until its carried out. -- Nelson Mandela
The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations. -- Niall Williams
Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together. -- Marco Rubio
There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors. -- Rob McClure
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish. -- William Zinsser
Sometimes I say some things people may think are just outlandish, but I'm going to have the last laugh. -- Riff Raff
We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests. -- Russ Thorne
Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0. -- Eamon Dunphy
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct. -- Kate Burton
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. -- Susan Sontag
There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. -- Kurt Hahn
The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished. -- Kedar Joshi
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence. -- Richard Wiseman
Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist. -- Bill Richardson
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know. -- Mary Stewart

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