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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. -- Jim Rohn
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! -- William Arthur Ward
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. -- William Arthur Ward
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. -- Brian Eno
We are unusual and tragic and alive. -- Dave Eggers
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual. -- Tim Burton
I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way. -- Lilly Pulitzer
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. -- Ernest Hemingway
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. -- Edward Weston
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected. -- Thomas Sowell
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. -- K. Patricia Cross
I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking. -- Michael Jackson
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' -- Clare Boothe Luce
Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport. -- Bobby Charlton
I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have. -- Blake Roney
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? -- Philip Zimbardo
That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. -- L. Frank Baum
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop. -- Mos Def
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. -- H. L. Mencken
Nothing Is Unusual (NIU). -- Toba Beta
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant. -- Erin Morgenstern
I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual. -- Jonathan Winters
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me. -- David Letterman
He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause. -- Terry Pratchett
Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. -- Mary Schmich
"¦Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. -- Jasper Fforde
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. -- Christo
I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do. -- Amy Winehouse
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point. -- Joe McNally
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. -- Charles M. Schwab
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something. -- Julian Baggini
Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle. -- Rob Thurman
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect. -- Salman Rushdie
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. -- Janet Jackson
Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. -- Tim Vine
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
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
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. -- Roberto Burle Marx
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. -- Leni Riefenstahl
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. -- Ron Ben-Israel
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. -- Fritz Kreisler
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases. -- Margaret Chan
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. -- Benazir Bhutto
It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things. -- Fefe Dobson
I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else. -- Jessie J
I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do. -- Angelina Jolie
There's nothing unusual about love. -- Charles Bukowski
It's been an unusual election [2016]. -- William Kristol
I only get unusual ailments. -- Jimmy Kimmel
Alaska itself is an unusual state. -- Fareed Zakaria
I, myself, am strange and unusual -- Winona Ryder
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now. -- Donald Judd
We are a very, very unusual species. -- Richard Dawkins
I cast unusual people in my movies. -- Albert Brooks
The unusual wins out over the usual. -- Sam Abell
My usual self is a very unusual self. -- Shelagh Delaney
Sometimes friendships develop under the most unusual circumstances ... -- Brenda Priddy
I developed a pretty unusual style, I think. -- Johnny Cash
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end. -- Mikhail Lermontov
Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit. -- Chelsea Leyland
Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual. -- Frederick Lenz
Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual. -- Frederick Lenz
I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful. -- Zaha Hadid
I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert. -- Reid Hoffman
I like to add something unusual to a dish. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life. -- Bob Weir
It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp. -- Billy Gibbons
Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else? -- Vivian Stanshall
I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal. -- Peter Greenaway
The history of medicine is the history of the unusual. -- Robert M. Fresco
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. -- J. K. Rowling
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. -- Khaled Hosseini
Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it. -- L. Frank Baum
This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players. -- Javier Clemente
It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. -- Carre Otis
You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage. -- Debra Dean
England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'. -- Emo Philips
I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate. -- Isabel Lucas
It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual. -- Bill Gates
I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual. -- Arthur Bradford
Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge. -- David Halberstam
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. -- Julius Caesar
It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual -- Jacob Bronowski
They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic. -- Lisa McMann
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. -- Robert Venturi
People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss. -- David Plotz
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced. -- Matthew Green
The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society. -- Noam Chomsky
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction. -- Howard Pyle
Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. -- Dexter Fletcher
I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience. -- Elvis Costello
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. -- Ettore Sottsass
Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual. -- Lori Lansens
Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies. -- E. W. Howe
You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions. -- Zicheng Hong
I have had a most unusual life so far. I know not why. -- donnie harold harris
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil. -- Ryan Holmes
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. -- Beaumont Newhall
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. -- Novak Djokovic
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. -- David Hockney
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual -- Sebastian Coe
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living. -- Martha Plimpton
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be. -- Isaac Asimov
I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad. -- James Haven
It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents. -- Mallory Ortberg
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me. -- Eva Green
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. -- Chuck Jones
It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated. -- Jimmy Hoffa
It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives. -- Mario Monti
I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles. -- Patricia Cornwell

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