“ Mumford more than any movie marked the turning point... That was the first time where I really changed my mannerisms my speech mannerisms, the way I talked, the way I carried myself. ”
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“ Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ”
- Jacques Maritain- Copy
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“ I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward. ”
- Rachel McAdams- Copy
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“ I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!". ”
- Richard M. DeVos- Copy
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“ The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ”
- Henry Lawson- Copy
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“ Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than affectations! ”
- Rex Harrison- Copy
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“ No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ”
- Julian Clary- Copy
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“ Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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