#eccentric

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

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I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person. ↗

— Crispin Glover

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If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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