Complete Opposites Quotes

• I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Psych, Yelling

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• I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

  Keren Ann

  Opposites

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• Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

  Criss Jami

  Responsibility, Opposites, Delight

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Opposites, Mind, Literature

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• The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  Andy Warhol

  Opposites, Two, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opposites, Fundamentals

  "How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Color, Opposites

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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  A. J. McLean

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Thinking, Europe

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• In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained

  Higa Yuchoku

  Opposites, Important, Today

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• I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hate, Self, Opposites

  "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

  PJ Harvey

  Who I Am, Opposites, Ideas

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• What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Morning, Opportunity, Opposites

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Opposites

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Opposites, Bored

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• I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Opposites, Fans

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.89, Criss Jami

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• People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

  Chance the Rapper

  Opposites, People, Awkward

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• Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

  Muhammad Ali

  Athlete, Boys, Opposites

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

  J. K. Rowling

  Opposites, Horcruxes, Humans

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• It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Successful, Men, Thinking

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• I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

  William Petersen

  Math, Opposites, Roles

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• When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Real, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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• The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

  Alain Badiou

  Real, Communication, Opposites

  Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso

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• I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Reading, Technology, Iphone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Country, War, Opposites

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