#unusual

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#biggest #bulwark #bunch #democracy #fall

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

#against #audience #here #human #human nature

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#before #changing #i #i do #keys

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

#because #eyes #how #most #normal

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives. ↗

— Mario Monti

#initiatives #italy #rather #unusual

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country. ↗

— Mario Monti

#come #country #guys #politicians #run

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#ask #being #carries #films #financed

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#circumstance #every #i #made #me

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. ↗

— William Kempe

#background #ballet #ballet dancer #classics #contemporary