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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Bertrand Russell
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I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.E.a. Bucchianeri
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Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.E.a. Bucchianeri
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In Science don't confound Normal static electricity To ecstatic eccentricity. Here is what I found: Electric charges As they rise up your hair In contrast with a discharge, Rarity leaves you up in the air!Ana Claudia Antunes
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Originals cost more than imitations.Suzy Kassem
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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.David Lynch
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There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked into the honeymoon suite at the nearest bed-and-breakfast." The Miami Seaquarium put in a monorail and rockets started going off at Cape Canaveral, making us feel like we were on the frontier of the future. Disney bought up everything north of Lake Okeechobee, preparing to shove the future down our throats sideways." Things evolved rapidly! Missile silos in Cuba. Bales on the beach. Alligators are almost extinct and then they aren't. Juntas hanging shingles in Boca Raton. Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo skinny-dipping off Key Biscayne. We atone for atrocities against the INdians by playing Bingo. Shark fetuses in formaldehyde jars, roadside gecko farms, tourists waddling around waffle houses like flocks of flightless birds. And before we know it, we have The New Florida, underplanned, overbuilt and ripe for a killer hurricane that'll knock that giant geodesic dome at Epcot down the trunpike like a golf ball, a solid one-wood by Buckminster Fuller."I am the native and this is my home. Faded pastels, and Spanish tiles constantly slipping off roofs, shattering on the sidewalk. Dogs with mange and skateboard punks with mange roaming through yards, knocking over garbage cans. Lunatics wandering the streets at night, talking about spaceships. Bail bondsmen wake me up at three A.M. looking for the last tenant. Next door, a mail-order bride is clubbed by a smelly ma in a mechanic's shirt. Cats violently mate under my windows and rats break-dance in the drop ceiling. And I'm lying in bed with a broken air conditioner, sweating and sipping lemonade through a straw. And I'm thinking, geez, this used to be a great state." You wanna come to Florida? You get a discount on theme-park tickets and find out you just bough a time share. Or maybe you end up at Cape Canaveral, sitting in a field for a week as a space shuttle launch is canceled six times. And suddenly vacation is over, you have to catch a plane, and you see the shuttle take off on TV at the airport. But you keep coming back, year after year, and one day you find you're eighty years old driving through an orange grove. .Tim Dorsey
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My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.Lisa Kleypas
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Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.Amit Kalantri
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The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.Hugh MacLeod
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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others. Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.) .Isaac Asimov
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My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.Amit Kalantri
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No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.Michael Bassey Johnson
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...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.Elizabeth Goudge
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Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.Sara Sheridan
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Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.Sara Sheridan
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Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.Amit Kalantri
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A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.Michael Bassey Johnson
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The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.Michael Bassey Johnson
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I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.Rebecca McKinsey
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Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.Jenny Offill
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.Edith Sitwell
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Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.Sara Sheridan
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I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!Ramana Pemmaraju
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The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.Michael Bassey Johnson
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.David Bowie