Opposite Quotes
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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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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
John Ruskin
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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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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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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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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't think this is the moment to do sanctions, and I do think the sanctions may contribute to the opposite that we want to obtain, which is defusing of the crisis.
Javier Solana
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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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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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When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.
Andrew Peterson
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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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No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.
Sigrid Nunez
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Jasper Fforde
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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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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
Heraclitus
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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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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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The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.
Aline Brosh McKenna
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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
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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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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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You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.
Scott Ellis
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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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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi