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Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D! -- Shigeru Miyamoto
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
There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things. -- Werner Herzog
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. -- Scarlett Johansson
These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them. -- Stan Lee
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism. -- Stendhal
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The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights. -- Orison Swett Marden
We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
I speak my mind. I'm not really afraid of things. I actually don't think that's that unusual. -- Kyrsten Sinema
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there. -- Mario Cuomo
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. -- Lyn Nofziger
One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win. -- Jesse Schell
In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better. -- James Dyson
Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries. -- Colin Camerer
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics. -- Ben Katchor
Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual? -- Trisha Goddard
I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet. -- Stana Katic
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true. -- Sarah Addison Allen
I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day. -- Linda Hunt
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid. -- Philippe Petit
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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 guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world. -- Marie Rutkoski
In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things. -- Jojo Moyes
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
They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic. -- Lisa McMann
I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way. -- Lilly Pulitzer
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. -- Salvador Dali
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things. -- Julius Caesar
I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous. I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail. -- Joline Godfrey

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