“When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognised for it.”
As quoted in El Pais (15 January 2012). "El Cyborg del Tercer Ojo" http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/ciborg/tercer/ojo/elpepusoceps/20120115elpepspor_9/Tes
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Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist 1984Related quotes
“You're making me nervous by being so weird.
But your weirdness is what I like about you.”
Source: The Year of Secret Assignments
Robert Fulghum in True Love (1998). Versions attributed to Dr. Seuss usually run "mutual weirdness".
Misattributed
“Japan, You're weird. We get it.”
http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=040622
Variant: You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Source: True Love (1998)
“Sundance is weird. The movies are weird—you actually have to think about them when you watch them.”
After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_entertainment_kempley013103.htm and other newspapers; later in TIME Magazine (10 February 2003) p. 21.
