Dakota Fanning

I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

American Actress

Selena Gomez

The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It's a difficult, and weird, situation.

Olly Alexander

I've mostly worked in weird films playing weird characters, probably because I'm a weird person.

English Musician

Jonathan Maberry

I love weird science. I love weird action. I love weird characters.

American Author

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

American Journalist

Kim Shattuck

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

American Musician

Katya Zamolodchikova

American Entertainer

James Marsters

American Actor

Henry Rollins

Joey Jordison

Weird may express fascination or curiosity, not always negative.

Cultural Nuance

What's weird for one person might be normal for another.

Subjective Perception

Weird often implies an eerie or supernatural twist, unlike 'strange.'

Not Interchangeable

Weird can be positive in contexts like innovations or ideas.

Context Matters

Weird can describe an extreme level of surprise or disbelief.

Intensity of Surprise

Using 'so' or 'really' with weird can emphasize the unexpectedness.

Emphasis Tool

In literature, 'weird' as a noun is often connected to witches and prophecies.

Literary Reference

As a noun, 'weird' used to mean one's destiny, not commonly used now.

Historical Usage

 Also, you start to get these sort of contractions and weird whistling sounds, all of which mean that real laughter is extremely easy, or feels extremely easy to spot. In contrast, posed laughter, we might think it sounds a bit fake. Actually, it's not, it's actually an important social cue. We use it a lot, we're choosing to laugh in a lot of situations,

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 And your love for your partner may be in its own dynamic relationship, healthy or totally weird, with the love of your parents and siblings. Love is also a set of behaviors we associate with the Holding hands, kissing, hugging, public displays of affection, dating, marriage,

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 and for years, I always used to eat them like this. What? And they taste disgusting because they're full of-- --this yellow kind of weird stuff and really pungent. It stays with you forever. But if you cook them and you barbecue them up, then it's perfect.

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 and acting as food for deep-sea animals. Largely thanks to that, abundant life forms exist in the darkness, adapting to a harsh reality where only the weird and wonderful can survive. Fish with cavernous mouths, spiky teeth jutting from their jaws,

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 Some things we know about science today may seem boring, but how we came to know them is incredibly fascinating. So if something bores you, dig deeper. It's probably got a really weird story behind it somewhere.

The wacky history of...

 So how did it happen that people all over the world knock on wood, or avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks? Well, although they have no basis in science, many of these weirdly specific beliefs and practices

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 have in common with ancient barbarians? Not much. So why are both known as goths? Is it a weird coincidence or a deeper connection stretching across the centuries?

A brief history of goths...

 world long enough to give us a chance I'm hoping to do so many things I've only started as a writer as a creator youtuber and as a reader and weird how

A message from the next...

 A spot of limbering up accompanied by a weird and wheezy call from deep in his throat.

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 a spot of limbering up accompanied by a weird and wheezy call from deep in his

Weird

Something or someone that is strange or unusual.

Often appears as...

Causing a feeling of surprise because it is not expected.

Often appears as...

Fate or destiny, especially seen as supernatural.

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Cultural Nuance

Subjective Perception

Not Interchangeable

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