Opposite Quotes
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The dumbest thing is when fans get so nervous that they treat you like shit. I'm so fascinated by it. I'll be like, "Did ya enjoy the show?" and they'll be like, "Eh." They figure everyone is adoring you, so they'll take the opposite approach. At the very end, they're bummed that they acted the way they did, and it breaks my heart.
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
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Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Richard Rohr
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The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.
Aline Brosh McKenna
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I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.
Kari Matchett
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
John Ruskin
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I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.
Brad Williams
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If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.
Julia Davis
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Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.
Sasha Lane
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Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
Michael J. Massimino
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Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.
Charles Seife
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We wanted to make the opposite of all the records we've done. All along we've threatened people that we'd make a pop record, and now we have.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
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Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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When meeting me, I always see only good things in a person. Until the person himself proves the opposite.
Vladimir Vysotsky
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My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
Susan Ford
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I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up...
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
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When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.
Andrew Peterson
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No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.
Sigrid Nunez
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.
Michael Dirda
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Jasper Fforde
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There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.
Teresa Palmer
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
Heraclitus
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If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.
Dennis McKinsey