Opposite Quotes
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What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
Joseph de Maistre
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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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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
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“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
Courtney Milan
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Deena Metzger
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You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise
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Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.
Haruki Murakami
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Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.
Azran Osman Rani
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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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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
Plato
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I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.
Walker Hayes
