Owen Wilson
Actor
"The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American."
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Exotic
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Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"An exotic and irrational entertainment."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed."
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual."
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"It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic."
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"There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover."
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"A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic."
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"The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place."
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"And what exotic part of the world do you come from?"
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"You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt"
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"Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically."
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"I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think."
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"I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all."
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