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Eccentricities of genius.
Charles Dickens / Writer
Eccentricity
Genius
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My eccentricity became direction.
Jean Paul Gaultier / Fashion Designer
Eccentricity
Direction
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Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz / Theatre Actress
Eccentricity
People
Sexy
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Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
Mason Cooley /
Eccentricity
Originality
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
David Bowie / Musician
Freedom
Eccentricity
Realms
Only
Find
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Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
Neil Simon / Playwright
Eccentricity
Stimulation
Underestimate
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
Carlene Carter /
Discouraged
Eccentricity
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I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
Daveigh Chase / Actress
Eccentricity
Evolve
Pay
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Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Mason Cooley /
Strength
Character
Eccentricity
Strength Of Character
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Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
Alessandro Michele /
Eccentricity
Luxury
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois / Author
Work
Doe
Eccentricity
Originality
Avoid
Original
Profoundly
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Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.
John Scofield / Guitarist
Eccentricity
Giving
Style
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Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.
Oliver Sacks / Neurologist
Accents
Eccentricity
People
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I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga / Tennis Player
Eccentricity
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If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
Russell Smith /
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Define
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Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.
Cliff Richard / Singer
Eccentricity
Industry
Property
Eccentricities
Owning
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost / Poet
Society
Civilized
Civilized Society
Crazy
Doubtful
Eccentricity
Mad
Sanity
Point
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Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life
David Ogilvy / Businessman
Eccentricity
Later In Life
Thinking
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz / Theatre Actress
Eccentricity
Hollywood
People
Sexy
Room
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Martin Short / Actor
Absurdity
Eccentricity
Masters
Mother
Symphony
Concert
Criticized
Master
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I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
Stefano Gabbana / Designer
Inspiring
Adore
Britain
Eccentricity
Favourite
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana / Philosopher
Design
Eccentricity
Graphic
Graphic Design
Heresy
Hobbies
Individuality
Paradise
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When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.
Suzy Menkes / Journalist
Eccentricity
Thrown
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I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.
Alice Mcdermott / Writer
Buying
Cell Phone
Charming
Eccentricity
Notion
Cell
Cultivate
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I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.
Jeremy Scott / Fashion Designer
Eccentricity
Work Dress Me
Bouncing
Walls
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There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
John Noble / Film Actor
Communicate
Eccentricity
Genius
Grace
Inability
Mere
Mortals
Exists
Geniuses
Graces
Pattern
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The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.
Anne Applebaum / Journalist
Decided
Eccentricity
Fringe
Handful
Identity
Mass
Movement
Transformed
Brexit
Campaign
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There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.
David Linley /
Charm
Creative Spirit
Eccentricity
Ingenuity
Reassuring
Wit
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Gonjasufi may sound at first like a rambling hip-hop crackpot, but there's more to the California rapper and singer than mere eccentricity: What appears messy and thrown together is anything but.
Anthony Fantano /
Eccentricity
Mere
Messy
Thrown
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No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.
Tony Kaye /
Eccentricity
Normal
Orthodox
Routine
So Many Years
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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
Jaron Lanier / Writer
Eccentricity
Lacking
Sufficient
Adult
Parallel
Walls
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill / Philosopher
Courage
Amount
Eccentricity
Vigor
Contained
Generally
Mental
Proportional
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I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
Holly Hunter / Actress
Eccentricity
Life God Great
Cancel
Great Place
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We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
Teju Cole / Writer
Conversation
Eccentricity
Madness
Safety
Shouting
Sight
Crowd
Except
Speaking
Voices
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Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
Stephen Mccauley /
Doomed
Eccentricity
Extravagant
Exuberance
Plot
Summary
Attempt
Confines
Squeeze
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan / Author
History
Appearance
Eccentricity
Evidence
Historical
Interpretation
Needed
Originality
Time History New
Between
Often
Detect
Difference
Encounter
Large
Radically
Segment
Sift
Studies
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'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
Ben Macintyre / Author
Active
Dry
Eccentricity
Espionage
Incomplete
Ingenuity
Remains
Sheer
Strange
Wartime
Nonetheless
Participant
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Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
Suzy Menkes / Journalist
Dream
Appreciate
Eccentricity
Form
Minimalism
Saint
Suits
Tough
Collection
Art Form
Came
Count
Different World
Leave
Working
Escapist
Maybe
Unless
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We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Eccentricity
Range
Ages
Dressing
Types
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