#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

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

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#give #given #i #lecture #lectures

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#celebrity #celebrity thing #happened #i #i think

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#became #body #classical #classical guitar #composition

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else? ↗

— Vivian Stanshall

#different #else #everyone #i #like

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#easy #ego #ever #fifties #forties