#unusual

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #countries #high #illness #immediately

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#lines #revealing #sit #something #unusual

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#constantly #degree #growing #growing up #important

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#believe #deny #i #i am #i believe

I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#spend #think #time #unusual #your

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes". ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#because #efforts #fail #i #i am

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#backward #because #look #pool #resources

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

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